About the Authors

Christine Lehmann

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Anna Heitmann

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Satish Mishra

Current address: Division of Parasitology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sector-10, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Paul-Christian Burda

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Mirko Singer

Affiliation University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Monica Prado

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Livia Niklaus

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Céline Lacroix

Affiliation Institute Pasteur, Unité de Biologie et Génétique du Paludisme, Paris, France

Robert Ménard

Affiliation Institute Pasteur, Unité de Biologie et Génétique du Paludisme, Paris, France

Friedrich Frischknecht

Affiliation University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany

Rebecca Stanway

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Photini Sinnis

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Volker Heussler

heussler@izb.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL AH RM FF RS PS VH. Performed the experiments: CL AH SM PCB MS MP CL RS LN. Analyzed the data: CL AH SM PCB MS RM FF RS PS VH LN. Wrote the paper: CL RS PS VH.