About the Authors

Anna J. Phillips

Affiliations Department of Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Renzo Arauco-Brown

Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa

Affiliations Department of Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Gloria P. Gomez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

María Beltrán

Affiliation Enteroparasitology Laboratory, Peruvian Public Health Center, Peruvian Health Institute, Lima, Perú

Yi-Te Lai

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Mark E. Siddall

siddall@amnh.org

Affiliation Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJP AOF MES. Performed the experiments: AJP AOF MES. Analyzed the data: AJP AOF MES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJP RAB GPG MB YTL MES. Wrote the paper: AJP RAB AOF MES.