Activation of the tick Toll pathway to control infection of Ixodes ricinus by the apicomplexan parasite Babesia microti

• Marie Jalovecka,

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

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Laurence Malandrin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine (ONIRIS), UMR1300 BiOEPAR, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Nantes, France

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• Veronika Urbanova,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Sazzad Mahmood,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Pavla Snebergerova,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Miriama Peklanska,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Veronika Pavlasova,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Radek Sima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Petr Kopacek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Jan Perner,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Ondrej Hajdusek

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

  * E-mail: hajdus@paru.cas.cz

  Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4607-5369

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