About the Authors

Kayla G. Barnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Kayla G. Barnes, Gareth D. Weedall

Affiliations Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gareth D. Weedall

Contributed equally to this work with: Kayla G. Barnes, Gareth D. Weedall

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Miranda Ndula

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Helen Irving

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Themba Mzihalowa

Affiliation Malaria Alert Centre, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Janet Hemingway

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Charles S. Wondji

charles.wondji@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliations Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CSW. Data curation: CSW KGB GDW MN. Formal analysis: CSW KGB GDW MN. Funding acquisition: CSW. Investigation: CSW KGB GDW MN. Methodology: CSW KGB GDW MN HI. Project administration: CSW. Resources: TM JH. Software: GDW. Supervision: CSW. Validation: CSW. Visualization: CSW KGB GDW MN. Writing – original draft: CSW KGB GDW. Writing – review & editing: JH CSW KGB GDW.