Loss of serine/threonine protein phosphatase 6 severely impairs sexual stage development in malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

• Yonghui Feng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghui Feng, Wenyan Gao, Chengqi Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Wenyan Gao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghui Feng, Wenyan Gao, Chengqi Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Department of Obstetrics, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Chengqi Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghui Feng, Wenyan Gao, Chengqi Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Shuangrui Shi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Dan Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Lin Sun,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Liying Zhu,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Liwang Cui ,

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

  * E-mail: liwangcui@usf.edu (LC); ymcao@cmu.edu.cn (YC); xtzhu@cmu.edu.cn (XZ)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Yaming Cao ,

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

  * E-mail: liwangcui@usf.edu (LC); ymcao@cmu.edu.cn (YC); xtzhu@cmu.edu.cn (XZ)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Xiaotong Zhu

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

  * E-mail: liwangcui@usf.edu (LC); ymcao@cmu.edu.cn (YC); xtzhu@cmu.edu.cn (XZ)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-586X

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