About the Authors

Fatma Kaplan

fkaplan@ufl.edu

Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Hans T. Alborn

Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Stephan H. von Reuss

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ramadan Ajredini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jared G. Ali

Affiliation Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Faruk Akyazi

Affiliations Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Plant Protection, Ordu Universitesi, Ordu, Turkey

Lukasz L. Stelinski

Affiliation Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Arthur S. Edison

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Frank C. Schroeder

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Peter E. Teal

Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK. Performed the experiments: FK HTA RA JA FA SHvR. Analyzed the data: FK HTA JA LS SHvR FCS ASE PEAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK ASE FCS HTA. Wrote the paper: FK HTA JA LS SHvR FCS ASE PEAT. Designed, developed and performed the dispersal assays: FK. Performed activity guided fractionation, the time course experiment for S. feltiae and LC-MS analysis for all samples: FK. Developed LC-MS and fractionation technique: FK HTA. Provided dauers for dispersal assays: RA. Produced insect host cadavers for Steinernema spp. and Heterorabditis spp. and verified S. feltiae by PCR: JGA. Identified Meloidogyne species: FA. Provided Meloidogyne spp.: HA. Synthesized ascr#9: SHvR.