About the Authors

Damer P. Blake

dblake@rvc.ac.uk (DPB); adrian.smith@zoo.ox.ac.uk (ALS)

Affiliations Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom, Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, North Mymms, United Kingdom

Karen J. Billington

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Susan L. Copestake

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Richard D. Oakes

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Michael A. Quail

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Kiew-Lian Wan

Affiliations Malaysia Genome Institute, UKM-MTDC Technology Centre, Selangor, Malaysia, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Martin W. Shirley

Affiliation Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Adrian L. Smith

dblake@rvc.ac.uk (DPB); adrian.smith@zoo.ox.ac.uk (ALS)

Affiliations Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

DPB, MWS and ALS declare that a patent application has been filed covering the development of some components of these studies into a commercial vaccine.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DPB MWS ALS. Performed the experiments: DPB KJB SLC RDO. Analyzed the data: DPB KLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAQ. Wrote the paper: DPB ALS.