Toxoplasma gondii requires its plant-like heme biosynthesis pathway for infection

• Amy Bergmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Bergmann, Katherine Floyd

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Katherine Floyd ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Bergmann, Katherine Floyd

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5242-090X

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• Melanie Key,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Carly Dameron,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-8964

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• Kerrick C. Rees,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1958-4777

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• L. Brock Thornton,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2297-5920

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• Daniel C. Whitehead,

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

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6881-2628

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• Iqbal Hamza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0045-0610

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• Zhicheng Dou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zdou@clemson.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1887-1181

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