About the Authors

Fabrizio Lombardo

g.christophides@imperial.ac.uk (GKC); fabrizio.lombardo@uniroma1.it (FL)

Current address: Division of Parasitology, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Affiliation Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yasmeen Ghani

Current address: Centre for Nephrology, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Fotis C. Kafatos

Affiliation Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

George K. Christophides

g.christophides@imperial.ac.uk (GKC); fabrizio.lombardo@uniroma1.it (FL)

Affiliation Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL FCK GKC. Performed the experiments: FL YG. Analyzed the data: FL GKC. Wrote the paper: FL FCK GKC.