About the Authors

Beniamino Caputo

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Federica Santolamazza

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

José L. Vicente

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, UEI Malária and UEI Entomologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Davis C. Nwakanma

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia

Musa Jawara

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia

Katinka Palsson

Affiliation Medical Entomology Unit, Department of Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Thomas Jaenson

Affiliation Medical Entomology Unit, Department of Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Bradley J. White

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Emiliano Mancini

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Petrarca

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

David J. Conway

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia

Nora J. Besansky

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

João Pinto

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, UEI Malária and UEI Entomologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Alessandra della Torre

ale.dellatorre@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC FS VP DJC NJB JP AdT. Performed the experiments: BC FS JLV DCN MJ KP TJ BJW EM. Analyzed the data: BC FS EM VP NJB JP AdT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCN MJ KP TJ BJW. Wrote the paper: BC NJB AdT.