About the Authors

Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Chung-Chau Hon

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Oliver G. Pybus

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Raymond Tze-Yeung Wong

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Chi-Wai Yip

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Fanya Zeng

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Frederick Chi-Ching Leung

fcleung@hkucc.hku.hk

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TTYL FCCL. Analyzed the data: SLKP RTYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTYW. Wrote the paper: SLKP. Collected and organized the sequence data: TTYL RTYW CWY FZ. Performed the research experiments and analyses: TTYL. Analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript: TTYL CCH OGP SLKP FCCL.