About the Authors

Michalis Kotsyfakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Michalis Kotsyfakis, Petr Kopáček

mich_kotsyfakis@yahoo.com

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Budweis, Czech Republic

Petr Kopáček

Contributed equally to this work with: Michalis Kotsyfakis, Petr Kopáček

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Budweis, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Franta

Current address: Department Bioresources, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), Giessen, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Budweis, Czech Republic

Joao H. F. Pedra

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

José M. C. Ribeiro

Affiliation Vector Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK PK JHFP. Performed the experiments: ZF JMCR. Analyzed the data: MK JHFP JMCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMCR. Wrote the paper: MK PK JMCR.