About the Authors

Patrick C. Y. Woo

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Y. Woo, Susanna K. P. Lau, Herman Tse, Jade L. L. Teng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Susanna K. P. Lau

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Y. Woo, Susanna K. P. Lau, Herman Tse, Jade L. L. Teng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Herman Tse

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Y. Woo, Susanna K. P. Lau, Herman Tse, Jade L. L. Teng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Jade L. L. Teng

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Y. Woo, Susanna K. P. Lau, Herman Tse, Jade L. L. Teng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Shirly O. T. Curreem

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Alan K. L. Tsang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Rachel Y. Y. Fan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Gilman K. M. Wong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Yi Huang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Nicholas J. Loman

Affiliation Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Lori A. S. Snyder

Affiliation Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

James J. Cai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Jian-Dong Huang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

William Mak

Affiliation Genome Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Mark J. Pallen

Affiliation Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Si Lok

Affiliation Genome Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Kwok-Yung Yuen

kyyuen@hkucc.hku.hk

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCYW SKPL KYY. Performed the experiments: JLLT SOTC AKLT RYYF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCYW SKPL JDH WM MJP SL KYY. Wrote the paper: PCYW SKPL HT JLLT. Performed genome assembly, bioinformatics analysis, and genome annotation: HT JLLT SOTC AKLT RYYF GKMW YH NJL LASS JJC.