About the Authors

Luz P. Quebrada Palacio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariela N. González

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Laboratory on Thymus Research, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Affiliation Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Yolanda Hernandez-Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alina E. Perrone

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adriana Parodi-Talice

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidad de Biología Molecular, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Sección Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Jacqueline Bua

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Miriam Postan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miriampostan@yahoo.com

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología “Dr. Mario Fatala Chabén”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.