About the Authors

Petar Petrov

petar.petrov@oulu.fi (PP); dave.burt@roslin.ed.ac.uk (DB)

Affiliations Institute of Diagnostics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Nordlab Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Riikka Syrjänen

Affiliations Institute of Diagnostics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Nordlab Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Jacqueline Smith

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, United Kingdom

Maria Weronika Gutowska

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, United Kingdom

Tatsuya Uchida

Affiliations Institute of Diagnostics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Olli Vainio

Affiliations Institute of Diagnostics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Nordlab Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

David W Burt

petar.petrov@oulu.fi (PP); dave.burt@roslin.ed.ac.uk (DB)

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DWB. Performed the experiments: PP JS DWB. Analyzed the data: PP RS JS DWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWG TU OV. Wrote the paper: PP RS JS TU OV DWB. Supervised the discovery of Trojan: OV. Discovered the rest of the Trojan family members: TU.