About the Authors

Thewarach Laha

thewa_la@kku.ac.th

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Alex Loukas

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Supatra Wattanasatitarpa

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Jenjira Somprakhon

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Nonglack Kewgrai

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Paiboon Sithithaworn

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Sasithorn Kaewkes

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Makedonka Mitreva

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Paul J. Brindley

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL PB TL. Performed the experiments: AL PB TL SW JS NK. Analyzed the data: MM AL PB TL SW JS NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL PB SK PS TL. Wrote the paper: MM AL PB TL. Carried out the molecular genetic experiments: TL. Carried out parasitological and molecular analyses including cloning and sequencing genomic fragments: SW JS NK. Participated in parasitological analyses including identification of the parasites as A. caninum: SK PS. Performed the homology modeling: AL TL. Participated in analysis of hookworm databases for bandit-like sequences and in the assembly of the contigs: MM.