The human parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, is paralyzed without two components of the apical polar ring

• Jonathan Munera Lopez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Munera Lopez, Luisa F. Arias Padilla

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

  Affiliation Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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• Luisa F. Arias Padilla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Munera Lopez, Luisa F. Arias Padilla

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

  Affiliation Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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• Isadonna F. Tengganu,

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

  Affiliation Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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• Yan Hao,

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

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Ying Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Laurence Florens,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• John M. Murray,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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• Ke Hu

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

  * E-mail: kehu4@asu.edu

  Affiliation Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9778-7337

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