A Novel Highly Divergent Protein Family Identified from a Viviparous Insect by RNA-seq Analysis: A Potential Target for Tsetse Fly-Specific Abortifacients

• Joshua B. Benoit ,

  * E-mail: joshua.benoit@yale.edu, joshua.benoit@uc.edu

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Geoffrey M. Attardo,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Veronika Michalkova,

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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• Tyler B. Krause,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Jana Bohova,

  Affiliation Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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• Qirui Zhang,

  Affiliation Departments of Entomology and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Aaron A. Baumann,

  Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

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• Paul O. Mireji,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya

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• Peter Takáč,

  Affiliation Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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• David L. Denlinger,

  Affiliation Departments of Entomology and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Jose M. Ribeiro,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Serap Aksoy

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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