About the Authors

Melody Walker

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

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Current address: Laboratory for Systems Medicine, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Clément Vinauger

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropod-Borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Michael A. Robert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Lauren M. Childs

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

lchilds@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropod-Borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.