About the Authors

Benoit de Thoisy

bdethoisy@pasteur-cayenne.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Hervé Bourhy

Affiliation Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Marguerite Delaval

Affiliation Sylvétude, Office National des Forêts, Cayenne, French Guiana

Dominique Pontier

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie évolutive, UMR CNRS 5558, Université Lyon 1 / CNRS, Villeurbanne, France

Laurent Dacheux

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Edith Darcissac

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Damien Donato

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Amandine Guidez

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Florence Larrous

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Rachel Lavenir

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Arielle Salmier

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and are alphabetically ordered.

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Vincent Lacoste

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Anne Lavergne

Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BdT AL VL HB. Performed the experiments: BdT AL ED DD AG RL LD FL. Analyzed the data: BdT HB DP AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BdT MD HB DP FL AS VL AL. Wrote the paper: BdT VL AL HB DP LD MD.