About the Authors

Steffen Hahnel

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, BFS, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Nic Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Zhigang Lu

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, BFS, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Arporn Wangwiwatsin

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

Paul McVeigh

Affiliation The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Aaron Maule

Affiliation The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Matthew Berriman

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

Timothy Day

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Paula Ribeiro

† Deceased.

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Christoph G. Grevelding

Christoph.Grevelding@vetmed.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, BFS, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.