About the Authors

Shirley Luckhart

Contributed equally to this work with: Shirley Luckhart, Cecilia Giulivi

sluckhart@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Cecilia Giulivi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shirley Luckhart, Cecilia Giulivi

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Medical Investigations of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Anna L. Drexler

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Yevgeniya Antonova-Koch

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Danielle Sakaguchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Eleonora Napoli

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sarah Wong

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mark S. Price

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Richard Eigenheer

Affiliation Genome and Biomedical Sciences Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Brett S. Phinney

Affiliation Genome and Biomedical Sciences Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Nazzy Pakpour

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jose E. Pietri

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kong Cheung

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Martha Georgis

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Michael Riehle

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL CG. Performed the experiments: ALD YAK DS EN SW MSP NP JEP KC MG. Analyzed the data: SL CG ALD YAK DS EN SW MSP NP JEP KC MG RE BSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RE BSP. Wrote the paper: SL CG MR.