About the Authors

Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana

Affiliations Departament of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Henrique Figueiredo

Affiliation AQUACEN, National Reference Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Diseases, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rommel Ramos

Affiliation Center of Genomic and System Biology, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Luis Carlos Guimarães

Affiliation Center of Genomic and System Biology, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Felipe Luiz Pereira

Affiliation AQUACEN, National Reference Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Diseases, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fernanda Alves Dorella

Affiliation AQUACEN, National Reference Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Diseases, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Salah Abdel Karim Selim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Mohammad Salaheldean

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Artur Silva

Affiliation Center of Genomic and System Biology, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Alice R. Wattam

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice R. Wattam, Vasco Azevedo

Affiliation Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Vasco Azevedo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice R. Wattam, Vasco Azevedo

vasco@icb.ufmg.br

Affiliation Departament of General Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MVCV HF RR LCG FLP FAD SAKS MS AS ARW VA. Data curation: ARW VA. Formal analysis: MVCV ARW VA. Funding acquisition: VA. Methodology: MVCV HF RR FAD AS ARW VA. Project administration: ARW VA. Resources: HF SAKS MS ARW VA. Supervision: ARW VA. Writing – original draft: MVCV ARW VA. Writing – review & editing: MVCV HF RR LCG FLP FAD SAKS MS AS ARW VA.