About the Authors

Anna Crisford

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Crisford, Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Crisford, Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher

Affiliation Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft, BCS AG-R&D-SMR-PC-PCB-PB, Monheim, Germany

Eva Schoenhense

Current address: University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Affiliation Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft, BCS AG-R&D-SMR-PC-PCB-PB, Monheim, Germany

Achim Harder

Current address: Institute for Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Affiliation Bayer Animal Health GmbH, BHC-GDD-AH-PARA-AR, Monheim, Germany

Klaus Raming

Affiliation Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft, BCS AG-R&D-SMR-PC-PCB-PB, Monheim, Germany

Ita O’Kelly

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Kelechi Ndukwe

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, West Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Vincent O’Connor

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Robert J. Walker

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Lindy Holden-Dye

lmhd@soton.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AC, PhD student of the University of Southampton, was funded by Bayer AnimalHealth. UEK, ES, KR are employees of Bayer CropScience. AH (retired) is an employee of Bayer AnimalHealth. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC UEK ES AH KR IOK KN VOC RJW LHD. Performed the experiments: AC UEK ES KN. Analyzed the data: AC UEK ES KN VOC LHD. Wrote the paper: AC UEK IOK VOC RJW LHD.