About the Authors

Antonio M. Mendes

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio M. Mendes, Timm Schlegelmilch

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Timm Schlegelmilch

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio M. Mendes, Timm Schlegelmilch

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Anna Cohuet

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, UR 016, BP 64501, Montpellier, France

Parfait Awono-Ambene

Affiliation Organisation de Coordination de la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, BP 288, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Maria De Iorio

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom

Didier Fontenille

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, UR 016, BP 64501, Montpellier, France

Isabelle Morlais

Affiliation Organisation de Coordination de la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, BP 288, Yaoundé, Cameroon

George K. Christophides

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Fotis C. Kafatos

f.kafatos@imperial.ac.uk (FCK); d.vlachou@imperial.ac.uk (DV)

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Dina Vlachou

f.kafatos@imperial.ac.uk (FCK); d.vlachou@imperial.ac.uk (DV)

Affiliation Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DV. Performed the experiments: AM TS AC PA IM. Analyzed the data: TS MD GC DV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF IM GC FK. Wrote the paper: GC FK DV.