About the Authors

Sofia B. Pinto

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofia B. Pinto, Kirsty Stainton

Current address: Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kirsty Stainton

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofia B. Pinto, Kirsty Stainton

Current address: Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Simon Harris

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zakaria Kambris

Current address: American University of Beirut, Department of Biology, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, Lebanon.

Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Elizabeth R. Sutton

Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael B. Bonsall

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

Julian Parkhill

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Steven P. Sinkins

s.sinkins@lancaster.ac.uk

Current address: Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPS SBP KS JP. Performed the experiments: SBP KS ZK ERS SH. Analyzed the data: SBP MBB SPS KS SH. Wrote the paper: SBP KS SPS.