About the Authors

Guillaume Carissimo

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Carissimo, Marius van den Beek

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, FRANCE, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, FRANCE, Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, 8A Biomedical Grove, Biopolis, Singapore, Singapore

Marius van den Beek

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Carissimo, Marius van den Beek

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Developmental Biology Department, Paris, France, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), ARTbio Bioinformatics Analysis Facility, Paris, France

Kenneth D. Vernick

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, FRANCE, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, FRANCE, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Christophe Antoniewski

christophe.antoniewski@upmc.fr

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Developmental Biology Department, Paris, France, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), ARTbio Bioinformatics Analysis Facility, Paris, France

Competing Interests

CA is an academic editor at PLoS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GC MvdB CA. Data curation: MvdB CA. Formal analysis: GC MvdB CA. Funding acquisition: KV CA. Investigation: GC CA. Methodology: GC MvdB CA. Project administration: CA. Resources: GC MvdB CA. Software: MvdB CA. Supervision: CA. Validation: GC CA. Visualization: MvdB CA. Writing – original draft: GC MvdB KV CA. Writing – review & editing: GC KV CA.