About the Authors

Aoife T. Heaslip

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Florence Dzierszinski

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada

Barry Stein

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Ke Hu

kehu@indiana.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ATH FD KH. Performed the experiments: ATH FD BS KH. Analyzed the data: ATH FD KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATH KH. Wrote the paper: ATH FD KH.