About the Authors

Linda Grillová

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Tanika Bawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Lenka Mikalová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Angèle Gayet-Ageron

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Kay Nieselt

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Michal Strouhal

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Patrice Sednaoui

Roles Resources

Affiliation Medical Biology, Institute Alfred Fournier, Paris, France

Tristan Ferry

Roles Resources

Affiliation Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

Matthias Cavassini

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Stephan Lautenschlager

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Triemlispital, Zurich, Switzerland

Fabrizio Dutly

Roles Resources

Affiliation IMD Institut für medizinische & molekulare Diagnostik AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Marta Pla-Díaz

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Unidad Mixta Infección y Salud Pública FISABIO/Universidad de Valencia, CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health, Valencia, Spain

Michael Krützen

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Fernando González-Candelas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Unidad Mixta Infección y Salud Pública FISABIO/Universidad de Valencia, CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health, Valencia, Spain

Homayoun C. Bagheri

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Repsol Technology Center, Madrid, Spain

David Šmajs

Contributed equally to this work with: David Šmajs, Natasha Arora, Philipp P. Bosshard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Natasha Arora

Contributed equally to this work with: David Šmajs, Natasha Arora, Philipp P. Bosshard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Philipp P. Bosshard

Contributed equally to this work with: David Šmajs, Natasha Arora, Philipp P. Bosshard

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Philipp.Bosshard@usz.ch

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Repsol Technology Center provided support in the form of salaries for an author HB. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.