About the Authors

Oscar A. MacLean

Contributed equally to this work with: Oscar A. MacLean, Spyros Lytras

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Spyros Lytras

Contributed equally to this work with: Oscar A. MacLean, Spyros Lytras

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Steven Weaver

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software

Affiliation Temple University, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joshua B. Singer

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Maciej F. Boni

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philippe Lemey

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

spond@temple.edu (SLKP); david.l.robertson@glasgow.ac.uk (DLR)

Affiliation Temple University, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David L. Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

spond@temple.edu (SLKP); david.l.robertson@glasgow.ac.uk (DLR)

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.