Novel cholinesterase paralogs of Schistosoma mansoni have perceived roles in cholinergic signalling and drug detoxification and are essential for parasite survival

• Bemnet A. Tedla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Javier Sotillo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1443-7233

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• Darren Pickering,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7517-8773

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• Ramon M. Eichenberger,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9337-9616

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• Stephanie Ryan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Luke Becker,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Alex Loukas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0896-8441

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• Mark S. Pearson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0002-1544

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