About the Authors

Moritz Saxenhofer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sabrina Schmidt

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: German Society of Tissue Transplantation, Essen, Germany

Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Rainer G. Ulrich

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel-Insel Riems, Germany

Gerald Heckel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gerald.heckel@iee.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.