About the Authors

Dong-Sheng Luo

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

dongshengluo@outlook.com (DSL); laurent.dacheux@pasteur.fr (LD)

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unit Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology, Paris, France, Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Markéta Harazim

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia

Corinne Maufrais

Roles Software

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Paris, France

Simon Bonas

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unit Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology, Paris, France

Natalia Martinkova

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia

Aude Lalis

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE-PSL, UA, Paris, France

Emmanuel Nakouné

Roles Resources

Affiliation Virology Department, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Edgard Valéry Adjogoua

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Epidemic Viruses, Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Mory Douno

Roles Resources

Affiliation Centre de Gestion de l’Environnement des Monts Nimba et Simandou (CEGENS) Lola/ Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable, Conakry, Guinée-Conakry

Blaise Kadjo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Université Félix-Houphouët-Boigny, UFR Biosciences, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Marc López-Roig

Roles Resources

Affiliations Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Barcelona, Spain, Institut de Reserca de Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Jiri Pikula

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Zoo Animals, Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Brno, Czechia

Zheng-Li Shi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou International Bio Island, Guangzhou, China

Hervé Bourhy

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unit Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology, Paris, France

Jordi Serra-Cobo

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Barcelona, Spain, Institut de Reserca de Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Laurent Dacheux

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dongshengluo@outlook.com (DSL); laurent.dacheux@pasteur.fr (LD)

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unit Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.