About the Authors

Mario Recker

mario.recker@zoo.ox.ac.uk chris.newbold@imm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Caroline O. Buckee

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew Serazin

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sue Kyes

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Robert Pinches

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Zóe Christodoulou

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Amy L. Springer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sunetra Gupta

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chris I. Newbold

mario.recker@zoo.ox.ac.uk chris.newbold@imm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR COB AS SG CIN. Performed the experiments: MR COB AS SK RP ZC. Analyzed the data: MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP ZC ALS. Wrote the paper: MR COB AS SG CIN. Helped write the paper: SK.