About the Authors

Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.e.gorbalenya@lumc.nl (AEG); stanley-perlman@uiowa.edu (SP)

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Faculty of Bioengineering & Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Stanley Perlman

Roles Writing – review & editing

a.e.gorbalenya@lumc.nl (AEG); stanley-perlman@uiowa.edu (SP)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.