About the Authors

Grant L. Hughes

Contributed equally to this work with: Grant L. Hughes, Andrew D. Pike

Affiliation The Department of Entomology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew D. Pike

Contributed equally to this work with: Grant L. Hughes, Andrew D. Pike

Affiliation The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ping Xue

Affiliation The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jason L. Rasgon

jlr54@psu.edu

Affiliation The Department of Entomology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GLH ADP JLR. Performed the experiments: GLH ADP PX. Analyzed the data: GLH ADP JLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GLH JLR. Wrote the paper: GLH ADP JLR.