About the Authors

Lauro Velazquez-Salinas

lauro.velazquez@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Selene Zarate

Affiliation Autonomous University of Mexico City, Genomics Sciences Program, Mexico City, Mexico

Michael Eschbaumer

Affiliations Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Francisco Pereira Lobo

Affiliation Laboratório Multiusuário de Bioinformática, Embrapa Informática Agropecuária, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) Campinas, Brazil

Douglas P. Gladue

Affiliation Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America

Jonathan Arzt

Affiliation Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America

Isabel S. Novella

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Luis L. Rodriguez

Affiliation Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LV SZ ME FP DPG JA ISN LLR. Performed the experiments: LV SZ ME. Analyzed the data: LV SZ ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLR. Wrote the paper: LV SZ ME FP DP JA ISN LLR.