PIWI silencing mechanism involving the retrotransposon nimbus orchestrates resistance to infection with Schistosoma mansoni in the snail vector, Biomphalaria glabrata

• Michael Smith,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Swara Yadav,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0406-0065

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• Olayemi G. Fagunloye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4903-7432

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• Nana Adjoa Pels,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-7462

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• Daniel A. Horton,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Genome Engineering and Maintenance, Division of Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7642-442X

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• Nashwah Alsultan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Andrea Borns,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Carolyn Cousin,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Freddie Dixon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Victoria H. Mann,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2218-597X

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• Clarence Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Paul J. Brindley,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Najib M. El-Sayed,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-3312

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• Joanna M. Bridger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Genome Engineering and Maintenance, Division of Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3999-042X

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• Matty Knight

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mathilde.knight@udc.edu, matty_knight@gwu.edu

  Affiliations Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7074-6524

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