About the Authors

Joshua B. Benoit

joshua.benoit@uc.edu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Immo A. Hansen

Affiliation Department of Biology and Institute of Applied Biosciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Geoffrey M. Attardo

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Veronika Michalková

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Paul O. Mireji

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya

Joel L. Bargul

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya

Lisa L. Drake

Affiliation Department of Biology and Institute of Applied Biosciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Daniel K. Masiga

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: JBB VM POM LLD. Analyzed the data: JBB IAH GMA VM POM LLD JLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBB IAH LLD DKM SA. Wrote the paper: JBB IAH GMA DKM SA.