A rotifer-derived paralytic compound prevents transmission of schistosomiasis to a mammalian host

• Jiarong Gao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiarong Gao, Ning Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3447-5816

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• Ning Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiarong Gao, Ning Yang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Fred A. Lewis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Bernville, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Peter Yau,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1984-185X

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• James J. Collins III,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jonathan V. Sweedler ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jsweedle@illinois.edu (JVS); pnewmark@morgridge.org (PAN)

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3107-9922

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• Phillip A. Newmark

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jsweedle@illinois.edu (JVS); pnewmark@morgridge.org (PAN)

  Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0793-022X

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