Knockout of Babesia bovis rad51 ortholog and its complementation by expression from the BbACc3 artificial chromosome platform

• Erin A. Mack ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Yu-Ping Xiao

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Yu-Ping Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Yu-Ping Xiao

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• David R. Allred

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

  * E-mail: allredd@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-5918

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