About the Authors

Christian Mitri

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Mitri, Emmanuel Bischoff

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Emmanuel Bischoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Mitri, Emmanuel Bischoff

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Eizo Takashima

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Marni Williams

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Karin Eiglmeier

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Adrien Pain

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Wamdaogo M. Guelbeogo

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Burkina Faso

Awa Gneme

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Burkina Faso

Emma Brito-Fravallo

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Inge Holm

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

Catherine Lavazec

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France

N’Fale Sagnon

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Burkina Faso

Richard H. Baxter

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michelle M. Riehle

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Kenneth D. Vernick

kvernick@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France, CNRS, Unit of Hosts, Vectors and Pathogens (URA3012), Paris, France, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM EB ET MW KE WMG NS RHB MMR KDV. Performed the experiments: CM EB ET MW KE AP WMG AG IH CL MMR EBF. Analyzed the data: CM EB ET MW KE AP WMG AG IH NS RHB MMR. Wrote the paper: CM EB KE NS MMR KDV.