About the Authors

Freija Verdoodt

Affiliation Nematology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Maxime Willems

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Pharmaceutics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Stijn Mouton

Affiliation Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Katrien De Mulder

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Wim Bert

Affiliation Nematology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Wouter Houthoofd

Affiliation Nematology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Julian Smith III

Affiliation Department of Biology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States of America

Peter Ladurner

peter.ladurner@uibk.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Zoology and CMBI, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FV MW SM PL JS. Performed the experiments: FV JS. Analyzed the data: FV MW SM KDM WB WH PL JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB PL. Wrote the paper: FV PL.