About the Authors

Scott Krauss

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Caroline A Obert

Affiliation Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

John Franks

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

David Walker

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kelly Jones

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Patrick Seiler

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Larry Niles

Affiliation Conserve Wildlife Foundation, Bordentown, New Jersey, United States of America

S. Paul Pryor

Affiliation Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

John C Obenauer

Affiliation Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Clayton W Naeve

Affiliation Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Linda Widjaja

Affiliation Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard J Webby

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert G Webster

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: robert.webster@stjude.org

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

RGW conceived and designed the experiments. SK, DW, KJ, and PS performed the experiments. SK, CAO, JF, PS, JCO, CWN, and RJW analyzed the data. CAO, LN, SPP, JCO, CWN, and LW contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SK, CAO, JCO, and RGW wrote the paper.