About the Authors

Anirban Ash

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Tomáš Scholz

tscholz@paru.cas.cz

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Alain de Chambrier

Affiliation Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

Jan Brabec

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Mikuláš Oros

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia

Pradip Kumar Kar

Affiliation Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Shivaji Prabhakar Chavan

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India

Jean Mariaux

Affiliation Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA TS AC JB. Performed the experiments: AA TS AC JB MO. Analyzed the data: AA TS AC JB MO JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA TS AC JB MO PKK SPC JM. Wrote the paper: AA TS JB.