About the Authors

Bram Vrancken

bram.vrancken@rega.kuleuven.be

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

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marc A. Suchard

Affiliations Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alexei Drummond

Affiliation Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Guy Baele

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

Inge Derdelinckx

Affiliation University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Eric Van Wijngaerden

Affiliation University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical and Unidade de Microbiologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Kristel Van Laethem

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

Philippe Lemey

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV PL AR KVL. Performed the experiments: BV PL KVL. Analyzed the data: BV PL GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ID EVW AMV KVL MAS GB. Wrote the paper: BV PL. Developed software: AR MAR PL AD.