About the Authors

Min-Jun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Jun Xu, Lin Ai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China

Lin Ai

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Jun Xu, Lin Ai

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Jing-Hua Fu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Alasdair J. Nisbet

Affiliation Parasitology Division, Moredun Research Institute, Midlothian, Scotland, UK

Qing-You Liu

Affiliation Animal Reproduction Institute, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Subtropical Bioresource Conservation and Utilization, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Nationality Autonomous Region, China

Mu-Xin Chen

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Dong-Hui Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China

Xing-Quan Zhu

xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQZ MJX. Performed the experiments: MJX LA JHF QYL. Analyzed the data: MJX XQZ LA AJN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MXC DHZ. Wrote the paper: MJX XQZ AJN.