About the Authors

Frank O. Aylward

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

faylward@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mohammad Moniruzzaman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Anh D. Ha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Eugene V. Koonin

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist