The Giardia ventrolateral flange is a lamellar membrane protrusion that supports attachment

• William R. Hardin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Germain C. M. Alas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Nikita Taparia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Elizabeth B. Thomas,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Melissa C. Steele-Ogus,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Kelli L. Hvorecny,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Aaron R. Halpern,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Pavla Tůmová,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Microbiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Justin M. Kollman,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Joshua C. Vaughan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Nathan J. Sniadecki,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Alexander R. Paredez

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

  * E-mail: aparedez@uw.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-3264

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