About the Authors

Bohumil Sak

Contributed equally to this work with: Bohumil Sak, Klara J. Petrzelkova

casio@paru.cas.cz

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Klara J. Petrzelkova

Contributed equally to this work with: Bohumil Sak, Klara J. Petrzelkova

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, Liberec Zoo, Liberec, Czech Republic, Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Dana Kvetonova

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Anna Mynarova

Affiliation Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Kathryn A. Shutt

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Katerina Pomajbikova

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Barbora Kalousova

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

David Modry

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Julio Benavides

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, CNRS-Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Angelique Todd

Affiliation WWF, Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Bangui, Central African Republic

Martin Kvac

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM KJP BS AT. Performed the experiments: BS MK DK DM KJP AM KP BK AT JB KAS. Analyzed the data: MK KJP BS DM KP AM BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS KJP MK DM KAS. Wrote the paper: BS KJP MK DM KAS AT.