About the Authors

Rebecca L. Skalsky

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David L. Corcoran

Affiliation Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Eva Gottwein

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher L. Frank

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Dong Kang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Markus Hafner

Affiliation Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Nusbaum

Affiliation Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Regina Feederle

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Department of Virus-Associated Tumours, Heidelberg, Germany

Henri-Jacques Delecluse

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Department of Virus-Associated Tumours, Heidelberg, Germany

Micah A. Luftig

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas Tuschl

Affiliation Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Uwe Ohler

Affiliations Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Bryan R. Cullen

bryan.cullen@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLS DLC EG UO BRC. Performed the experiments: RLS DLC CLF JDN DK. Analyzed the data: RLS DLC MAL UO BRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF HJD EG MH MAL TT UO. Wrote the paper: RLS BRC.