Table 1.

The list of rhoptry proteins examined in this study.

	P. berghei		P. falciparum		T. gondii	References
	ID	Expression in sporozoite*	ID	Merozoite	ID
RON2	PBANKA_1315700	Rhoptry	PF3D7_1452000	Neck	TGME49_300100	Cao et al., 2009; Ishino et al., 2019
RON4	PBANKA_0932000	Rhoptry	PF3D7_1116000	Neck	TGME49_229010	Richard et al., 2010
RON5	PBANKA_0713100	Rhoptry	PF3D7_0817700	Neck	TGME49_311470	Richard et al., 2010
RON6	PBANKA_0311700	Apical end	PF3D7_0214900	Neck	TGME49_297960	Proellocks et al., 2009
RALP1	PBANKA_0619700	Rhoptry	PF3D7_0722200	Neck	No ortholog	Haase et al., 2008;Ito et al., 2013
ASP/RON1	PBANKA_1003600	Rhoptry	PF3D7_0405900	Neck	TGME49_310010	Srivastava et al., 2010
RON3	PBANKA_1464900	Rhoptry	PF3D7_1252100	Bulb	TGME49_223920	Ito et al., 2011
RAP1	PBANKA_1032100	Rhoptry	PF3D7_1410400	Bulb	No ortholog	Riglar et al., 2011
RAMA	PBANKA_0804500	Rhoptry	PF3D7_0707300	Bulb	No ortholog	Topolska et al., 2004
RhopH1A	PBANKA_1400600	Not detected	3 paralogues	Bulb	No ortholog	Kaneko et al., 2001
RhopH2	PBANKA_0830200	Not detected	PF3D7_0929400	Bulb	No ortholog	Counihan et al., 2017
RhopH3	PBANKA_0416000	Not detected	PF3D7_0905400	Bulb	No ortholog	Sherling et al., 2017

^*Localization in sporozoites determined by IEM (except for RON6 which was detected by IFA) in this study.