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Edited by Jitender P. Dubey, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, and approved September 10, 2013 (received for review June 10, 2013)
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- Published in issue October 22, 2013.
- Published first October 7, 2013.
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- Juliane Schaera,b,1,2,
- Susan L. Perkinsc,1,2,
- Jan Decherd,
- Fabian H. Leendertze,
- Jakob Fahrf,g,
- Natalie Weberh, and
- Kai Matuschewskia,i
- aParasitology Unit, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, 10117 Berlin, Germany;
- bMuseum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, 10115 Berlin, Germany;
- cSackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024;
- dSection of Mammals, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum A. König, 53113 Bonn, Germany;
- eRobert Koch Institute, 13302 Berlin, Germany;
- fZoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany;
- gDepartment of Migration and Immuno-ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany;
- hInstitute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany; and
- iInstitute of Biology, Humboldt University, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Edited by Jitender P. Dubey, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, and approved September 10, 2013 (received for review June 10, 2013)
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↵1J.S. and S.L.P. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: schaer{at}mpiib-berlin.mpg.de or perkins{at}amnh.org.
Author contributions: J.S. and S.L.P. designed research; J.S. and S.L.P. performed research; J.S., J.D., F.H.L., J.F., and N.W. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.S., S.L.P., and K.M. analyzed data; and J.S., S.L.P., and K.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. are reported in Tables S4 and S5).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1311016110/-/DCSupplemental.
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