About the Authors

Asis Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Asis Khan, Sonya Taylor

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

Sonya Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Asis Khan, Sonya Taylor

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

James W. Ajioka

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Benjamin M. Rosenthal

Affiliation Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory, Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

L. David Sibley

sibley@borcim.wsutl.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

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK ST LDS. Performed the experiments: AK ST. Analyzed the data: AK ST JWA BMR LDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWA BMR. Wrote the paper: BMR LDS.