About the Authors

Taisei Kikuchi

kikuchit@affrc.go.jp

Affiliations Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

James A. Cotton

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Jonathan J. Dalzell

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation Molecular Biosciences-Parasitology, Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Koichi Hasegawa

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Natsumi Kanzaki

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

Paul McVeigh

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation Molecular Biosciences-Parasitology, Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Takuma Takanashi

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliations Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, Neurosensing and Bionavigation Research Center, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Isheng J. Tsai

These authors contributed equally as second authors.

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Samuel A. Assefa

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Peter J. A. Cock

Affiliation Plant Pathology Programme, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, United Kingdom

Thomas Dan Otto

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Martin Hunt

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Adam J. Reid

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alejandro Sanchez-Flores

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Kazuko Tsuchihara

Affiliation Neurosensing and Bionavigation Research Center, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Toshiro Yokoi

Affiliation Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

Mattias C. Larsson

Affiliations Neurosensing and Bionavigation Research Center, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Division of Chemical Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

Johji Miwa

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Aaron G. Maule

Affiliation Molecular Biosciences-Parasitology, Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Norio Sahashi

Affiliation Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

John T. Jones

Affiliation Neurosensing and Bionavigation Research Center, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Matthew Berriman

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK JTJ NK NS MB. Performed the experiments: ASF AJR IJT TDO MH TK. Analyzed the data: JJD PM TT KT MCL SAA IJT PJAC KH JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK TY. Wrote the paper: TK JTJ JAC AGM MB. Contributed equally as second authors: JAC JJD KH NK PM TT IJT. Assembled the genome and directed annotation: ASF AJR IJT TDO MH TK. Analyzed RNAi pathway and neuropeptides: JJD PM AGM. Analyzed effector analysis: PJAC JTJ. Analyzed embryogenesis and stress response: KH JM. Repeat analysis: IJT. orthMCL and HGT analysis: JAC. Peptidase analysis: SAA. Chemoreception analysis: TT KT MCL.