About the Authors

Rachael Chiam

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachael Chiam, Emma Sharp

Current address: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Emma Sharp

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachael Chiam, Emma Sharp

Affiliation Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Sushila Maan

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Shujing Rao

Current address: Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Peter Mertens

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Barbara Blacklaws

Affiliation Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nick Davis-Poynter

Affiliation Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

James Wood

Affiliation Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Javier Castillo-Olivares

javier.castillo-olivares@bbsrc.ac.uk

Current address: Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Affiliation Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSC ES PPCM BB NDP JLNW JCO. Performed the experiments: RSC ES JCO. Analyzed the data: RSC ES JCO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM SR PPCM BB JCO. Wrote the paper: RSC BB JCO.