Critical role of Babesia bovis spherical body protein 3 in ridge formation on infected red blood cells

• Atefeh Fathi,

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

  Affiliations National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Graduate School of Animal and Veterinary Science and Agriculture, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Hassan Hakimi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Hakimi, Miako Sakaguchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Miako Sakaguchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Hakimi, Miako Sakaguchi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Junya Yamagishi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Shin-ichiro Kawazu,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Masahito Asada

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

  * E-mail: masada@obihiro.ac.jp

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-6856

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