About the Authors

Heather M. Kudyba

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Kudyba, David W. Cobb

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David W. Cobb

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Kudyba, David W. Cobb

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Joel Vega-Rodríguez

joel.vega-rodriguez@nih.gov (JV-R); vasant@uga.edu (VM)

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Vasant Muralidharan

joel.vega-rodriguez@nih.gov (JV-R); vasant@uga.edu (VM)

Affiliations Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.