About the Authors

Gaurav Dugar

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Dugar, Alexander Herbig

Affiliation Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Alexander Herbig

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Dugar, Alexander Herbig

Affiliation Integrative Transcriptomics, ZBIT (Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Konrad U. Förstner

Affiliations Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Nadja Heidrich

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Richard Reinhardt

Affiliation Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Kay Nieselt

Affiliation Integrative Transcriptomics, ZBIT (Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Cynthia M. Sharma

cynthia.sharma@uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMS KN. Performed the experiments: GD AH KUF NH KN RR CMS. Analyzed the data: GD AH KUF KN CMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR KN AH. Wrote the paper: CMS.