About the Authors

Kathryn L. Schaber

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program of Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

T. Alex Perkins

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Alun L. Lloyd

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomathematics Graduate Program and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Lance A. Waller

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Uriel Kitron

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Valerie A. Paz-Soldan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

John P. Elder

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Alan L. Rothman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Informatics and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

David J. Civitello

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

William H. Elson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Amy C. Morrison

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Thomas W. Scott

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec

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

gmvazqu@emory.edu

Affiliations Program of Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.