About the Authors

Felipe Rodriguez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Brenda S. Luna

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Olivia Calderon

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Claudia Manriquez-Roman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Karsten Amezcua-Winter

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Jonathan Cedillo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Rebeca Garcia-Vazquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Itzel A. Tejeda

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Alvaro Romero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New Mexico State University, Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Kenneth Waldrup

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Department of State Health Services, Zoonosis Control Region 10, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Douglas M. Watts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Camilo Khatchikian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Rosa A. Maldonado

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ramaldonado@utep.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.