Quorum sensing N-Acyl homoserine lactones are a new class of anti-schistosomal

Helen Whiteland; Alessandra Crusco; Lisa W. Bloemberg; Jamie Tibble-Howlings; Josephine Forde-Thomas; Avril Coghlan; Patrick J. Murphy; Karl F. Hoffmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008630

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Quorum sensing N-Acyl homoserine lactones are a new class of anti-schistosomal

Helen Whiteland,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2650-5977

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Alessandra Crusco,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
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Lisa W. Bloemberg,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9749-0207

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Jamie Tibble-Howlings,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
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Josephine Forde-Thomas,

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7202-3565

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Avril Coghlan,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-5951

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Patrick J. Murphy,

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
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Karl F. Hoffmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: krh@aber.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3932-5502

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Quorum sensing N-Acyl homoserine lactones are a new class of anti-schistosomal

Helen Whiteland,
Alessandra Crusco,
Lisa W. Bloemberg,
Jamie Tibble-Howlings,
Josephine Forde-Thomas,
Avril Coghlan,
Patrick J. Murphy,
Karl F. Hoffmann

Published: October 19, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008630
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