About the Authors

Mayur K. Kajla

Contributed equally to this work with: Mayur K. Kajla, Lei Shi

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Lei Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mayur K. Kajla, Lei Shi

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Section of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bin Li

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Section of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Shirley Luckhart

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, California, United States of America

Jianyong Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Susan M. Paskewitz

paskewit@entomology.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMP LS MKK. Performed the experiments: MKK LS BL JL. Analyzed the data: SMP MKK SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMP SL JL. Wrote the paper: MKK SMP. Critical review of manuscript: SL JL BL LS.