About the Authors

Claudio Casanova

casanovaclaus@gmail.com

Affiliation Superintendência de Controle de Endemias, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, Brazil

Fernanda E. Colla-Jacques

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

James G. C. Hamilton

Affiliation Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Reginaldo P. Brazil

Affiliation Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jeffrey J. Shaw

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC JJS JGCH. Performed the experiments: CC FECJ JGCH. Analyzed the data: CC JGCH FECJ RPB JJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC JGCH FECJ. Wrote the paper: CC FECJ JGCH RPB JJS.