About the Authors

Damian J. Magill

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Victor N. Krylov

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Laboratory for Genetics of Bacteriophages, I.I. Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, Moscow, Russia

Olga V. Shaburova

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Laboratory for Genetics of Bacteriophages, I.I. Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, Moscow, Russia

John W. McGrath

Roles Resources

Affiliation Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Christopher C. R. Allen

Roles Resources

Affiliation Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

John P. Quinn

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Leonid A. Kulakov

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

l.kulakov@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.