About the Authors

Peter Simmonds

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

peter.simmonds@ndm.ox.ac.uk (PS); Evelien.Adriaenssens@quadram.ac.uk (EMA); zerbini@ufv.br (FMZ)

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Evelien M. Adriaenssens

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

peter.simmonds@ndm.ox.ac.uk (PS); Evelien.Adriaenssens@quadram.ac.uk (EMA); zerbini@ufv.br (FMZ)

Affiliation Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

F. Murilo Zerbini

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

peter.simmonds@ndm.ox.ac.uk (PS); Evelien.Adriaenssens@quadram.ac.uk (EMA); zerbini@ufv.br (FMZ)

Affiliation Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

Nicola G. A. Abrescia

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Structure and Cell Biology of Viruses Lab, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences—BRTA, Derio, Spain, Basque Foundation for Science, IKERBASQUE, Bilbao, Spain

Pakorn Aiewsakun

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

Yiming Bao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jakub Barylski

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Christian Drosten

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Siobain Duffy

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

W. Paul Duprex

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bas E. Dutilh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Santiago F. Elena

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SysBio), CSIC-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Maria Laura García

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, CCT-La Plata, CONICET, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina

Sandra Junglen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Aris Katzourakis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Eugene V. Koonin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Mart Krupovic

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit, Paris, France

Jens H. Kuhn

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Amy J. Lambert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Elliot J. Lefkowitz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Małgorzata Łobocka

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Cédric Lood

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jennifer Mahony

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Databases, Leibniz Institute DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

Arcady R. Mushegian

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Hanna M. Oksanen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Minna M. Poranen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Alejandro Reyes-Muñoz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biology, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

David L. Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Simon Roux

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Luisa Rubino

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, UOS Bari, Bari, Italy

Sead Sabanadzovic

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Stuart Siddell

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Tim Skern

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University of Vienna, Max Perutz Labs, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria

Donald B. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Matthew B. Sullivan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Nobuhiro Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Dann Turner

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, College of Health, Science and Society, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

Koenraad Van Doorslaer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Department of Immunobiology, BIO5 Institute, and University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium, Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Arvind Varsani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Nikos Vasilakis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Center of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Institute for Human Infection and Immunity and World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.