About the Authors

Catalina Alfonso-Parra

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalina Alfonso-Parra, Yasir H. Ahmed-Braimah

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical - Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia

Yasir H. Ahmed-Braimah

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalina Alfonso-Parra, Yasir H. Ahmed-Braimah

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ethan C. Degner

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Frank W. Avila

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Susan M. Villarreal

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Pleiss

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mariana F. Wolfner

mfw5@cornell.edu (MFW); lch27@cornell.edu (LCH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Laura C. Harrington

mfw5@cornell.edu (MFW); lch27@cornell.edu (LCH)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAP ECD LCH MFW. Performed the experiments: CAP ECD FWA. Analyzed the data: YHAB JAP CAP ECD. Wrote the paper: CAP ECD YHAB FWA LCH SMV MFW.