About the Authors

Maria Fernanda Laranjeira-Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Wanpeng Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Tamika K. Samuel

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Fernando Y. Maeda

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Vladimir Michailowsky

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Faculdade de Medicina, Setor Parasitologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Iqbal Hamza

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Zhongchi Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Norma W. Andrews

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

andrewsn@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.