About the Authors

Richard C. Wilkerson

wilkersonr@si.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

Yvonne-Marie Linton

Affiliations Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Faculty of Preventative Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dina M. Fonseca

Affiliation Entomology Department, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Ted R. Schultz

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

Dana C. Price

Affiliation Entomology Department, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Daniel A. Strickman

Affiliation Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRS RCW YML. Performed the experiments: TRS. Analyzed the data: TRS RCW YML. Wrote the paper: RCW YML DMF TRS DAS DCP. Initiated this study: RCW DCP DAS YML.