About the Authors

Diego S. Buarque

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Glória R. C. Braz

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rafael M. Martins

Affiliation Biology of Host Parasite Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Anita M. Tanaka-Azevedo

Affiliation Laboratory of Herpetology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Cícera M. Gomes

Affiliation Laboratory of Herpetology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Felipe A. A. Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Sergio Schenkman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Aparecida S. Tanaka

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.