About the Authors

Saeed El-Ashram

Contributed equally to this work with: Saeed El-Ashram, Qing Yin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China, National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Faculty of Science, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Qing Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Saeed El-Ashram, Qing Yin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China, National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Hongbin Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China

Ibrahim Al Nasr

Affiliation College of Applied Health Sciences in arras, Qassim, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

Xianyong Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China, National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xun Suo

suoxun@cau.edu.cn (XS); jbarta@uoguelph.ca (JB)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China, National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

John Barta

suoxun@cau.edu.cn (XS); jbarta@uoguelph.ca (JB)

Affiliation University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE QY HL IA XL XS JB. Performed the experiments: SE QY. Analyzed the data: SE QY HL IA XL XS JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SE JB XS. Wrote the paper: SE JB XS.