The resistance to Toxoplasma gondii in Microtus fortis is associated with the activation of the complement lectin pathway

• Jing Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Xie, Mengqi Wu, Zhijun Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8469-1701

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• Mengqi Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Xie, Mengqi Wu, Zhijun Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Zhijun Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Xie, Mengqi Wu, Zhijun Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Animal Science, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China, Hunan Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Yuan Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Xiaohua Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Kaijuan Wu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Dongqian Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Yixiao Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Kang Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Chandara Ngim,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Zheng Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jiangliping@csu.edu.cn (LJ); 600826@csu.edu.cn (ZW)

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Liping Jiang

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

  * E-mail: jiangliping@csu.edu.cn (LJ); 600826@csu.edu.cn (ZW)

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China, China-Africa Research Center of Infectious Diseases, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8050-4193

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