About the Authors

Young-Jun Choi

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Elodie Ghedin

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew Berriman

Affiliation The Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jacqueline McQuillan

Affiliation The Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nancy Holroyd

Affiliation The Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

George F. Mayhew

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bruce M. Christensen

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michelle L. Michalski

michalsk@uwosh.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Microbiology, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG MLM MB. Performed the experiments: MLM BMC MB. Analyzed the data: Y-JC GFM JM NH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLM EG MB BMC. Wrote the paper: Y-JC GFM EG MLM.