About the Authors

Zi T. Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Shiv K. Verma

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Jitender P. Dubey

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

L. David Sibley

sibley@borcim.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZTW JPD LDS. Formal analysis: ZTW LDS. Funding acquisition: LDS. Investigation: ZTW SKV JPD. Methodology: ZTW SKV JPD. Project administration: JPD LDS. Supervision: JPD LDS. Validation: JPD LDS. Visualization: ZTW. Writing – original draft: ZTW LDS. Writing – review & editing: JPD LDS.