Head-to-head comparisons of Toxoplasma gondii and its near relative Hammondia hammondi reveal dramatic differences in the host response and effectors with species-specific functions

• Zhee Sheen Wong,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-9948

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• Sarah L. Sokol-Borrelli,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-2104

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• Philip Olias,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• J. P. Dubey,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jon P. Boyle

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: boylej@pitt.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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