About the Authors

Patrick Giraudoux

patrick.giraudoux@univ-fcomte.fr

Affiliations Chrono-environment, University of Franche-Comte (CRNS), Besançon, France, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France

Francis Raoul

Affiliation Chrono-environment, University of Franche-Comte (CRNS), Besançon, France

David Pleydell

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), Contrle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Émergentes (CMAEE), Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France

Tiaoying Li

Affiliation Sichuan Center for Disease Control, Chengdu, China

Xiuming Han

Affiliation Qinghai Center for Disease Control, Xining, China

Jiamin Qiu

Affiliation Sichuan Center for Disease Control, Chengdu, China

Yan Xie

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hu Wang

Affiliation Qinghai Center for Disease Control, Xining, China

Akira Ito

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

Philip S. Craig

Affiliation School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG PSC FR TL AI. Performed the experiments: PG TL XH JQ YX HW. Analyzed the data: PG FR DP. Wrote the paper: PG FR PSC DP.