About the Authors

Shehre-Banoo Malik

sbmalik@dal.ca (S-BM); jane.carlton@nyumc.org (JMC)

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Division of Medical Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Cynthia D. Brochu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ivana Bilic

Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Clinic for Avian, Reptile and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Jing Yuan

Affiliation Department of Biology, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Michael Hess

Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Clinic for Avian, Reptile and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

John M. Logsdon Jr

Affiliation Department of Biology, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jane M. Carlton

sbmalik@dal.ca (S-BM); jane.carlton@nyumc.org (JMC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Division of Medical Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine, 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: S-BM JML JMC. Performed the experiments: S-BM CDB IB JY. Analyzed the data: S-BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH JML JMC. Wrote the paper: S-BM CDB IB MH JML JMC.