About the Authors

Ionit Iberkleid

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry units; Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Paulo Vieira

Affiliations UMR Institut Sophia Agrobiotech INRA/CNRS/UNS, Sophia Antipolis, France, NemaLab/ICAAM – Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

Janice de Almeida Engler

Affiliation UMR Institut Sophia Agrobiotech INRA/CNRS/UNS, Sophia Antipolis, France

Kalia Firester

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry units; Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Yitzhak Spiegel

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry units; Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Sigal Brown Horowitz

sigalhor@volcani.agri.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry units; Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: II SBH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBH II JdAE PV. Wrote the paper: SBH. Performed the research along with data analyses, as a part of her Ph.D. thesis: II. Supervision: SBH YS KF. Conducted all the immunodetection and performed the corresponding documentation: JdAE PV. Analyzed all the immunolocalization documentation: JdAE PV. Provided critical comments and helpful suggestions during revision the manuscript: PV.