About the Authors

Aude Lalis

Contributed equally to this work with: Aude Lalis, Raphaël Leblois, Emilie Lecompte

Affiliation Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Raphaël Leblois

Contributed equally to this work with: Aude Lalis, Raphaël Leblois, Emilie Lecompte

Affiliations Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

Emilie Lecompte

Contributed equally to this work with: Aude Lalis, Raphaël Leblois, Emilie Lecompte

Affiliations Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Toulouse, France, Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Christiane Denys

Affiliation Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Jan ter Meulen

Current address: Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Thierry Wirth

wirth@mnhn.fr

Affiliations Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Laboratoire de Biologie intégrative des populations, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL EL CD JtM. Performed the experiments: AL EL. Analyzed the data: AL RL EL TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL RL EL CD JtM TW. Wrote the paper: AL JtM TW.