About the Authors

Maria Shirely Herbas

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Shirely Herbas, Mototada Shichiri

Affiliation Research Unit for Functional Genomics, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan

Mototada Shichiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Shirely Herbas, Mototada Shichiri

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan

Noriko Ishida

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan

Aiko Kume

Affiliations Research Unit for Functional Genomics, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Basic Veterinary Science, The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

Yoshihisa Hagihara

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan

Yasukazu Yoshida

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Suzuki

hisuzuki@obihiro.ac.jp

Affiliations Research Unit for Functional Genomics, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Basic Veterinary Science, The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSH MS. Performed the experiments: MSH AK MS NI. Analyzed the data: MSH MS YH YY HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSH MS. Wrote the paper: MSH MS HS.