About the Authors

Carina S. S. Gomes-Santos

Affiliations Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Maurice A. Itoe

Affiliation Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Cristina Afonso

Affiliation Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Ricardo Henriques

Affiliation Cell Biology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Rui Gardner

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Nuno Sepúlveda

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

Pedro D. Simões

Affiliation Cell Biology of the Immune System Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Helena Raquel

Affiliation Cell Biology of the Immune System Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

António Paulo Almeida

Affiliation Unidade de Entomologia Médica/UPMM, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Luis F. Moita

Affiliation Cell Biology of the Immune System Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Friedrich Frischknecht

freddy.frischknecht@med.uni-heidelberg.de (FF); mmota@fm.ul.pt (MMM)

Affiliation Parasitology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Maria M. Mota

freddy.frischknecht@med.uni-heidelberg.de (FF); mmota@fm.ul.pt (MMM)

Affiliation Malaria Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CSSG-S CA FF MMM. Performed the experiments: CSSG-S MAI. Analyzed the data: CSSG-S MAI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH RG NS PS HR APA LFM. Wrote the paper: CSSG-S FF MMM.