About the Authors

Yasuko Hatta

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Hatta, Karen Hershberger

Affiliations Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Karen Hershberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Hatta, Karen Hershberger

Affiliations Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kyoko Shinya

Affiliation Division of Zoonosis, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Sean C. Proll

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Richard R. Dubielzig

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Masato Hatta

Affiliations Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael G. Katze

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

sureshm@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu (MS); kawaokay@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu (YK)

Affiliations Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Division of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

M. Suresh

sureshm@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu (MS); kawaokay@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu (YK)

Affiliations Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH KH YK MS. Performed the experiments: YH KH KS SCP MH. Analyzed the data: YH KH KS SCP RRD MH MGK YK MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGK. Wrote the paper: YH YK MS.