About the Authors
- Diego S. Buarque
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Glória R. C. Braz
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Rafael M. Martins
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Affiliation Biology of Host Parasite Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Anita M. Tanaka-Azevedo
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Affiliation Laboratory of Herpetology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
- Cícera M. Gomes
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Affiliation Laboratory of Herpetology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
- Felipe A. A. Oliveira
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Sergio Schenkman
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Aparecida S. Tanaka
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* E-mail: tanaka.bioq@epm.br
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Contributed to insect infection and dissection: SS RMM DSB. Contributed to library construction: DSB AMTA. Performed sequencing: DSB. Involved in the bioinformatics analysis and annotation of the ESTs: GRCB FAAO CMG. Read and approved the final manuscript: DSB GRCB RMM AMTA CMG FAAO SS AST. Conceived and designed the experiments: AST DSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AST SS AMTA GRCB. Wrote the paper: AST DSB SS.