About the Authors

Thomas Günther

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Günther, Sabrina Schreiner

thomas.guenther@hpi.uni-hamburg.de (TG); adam.grundhoff@hpi.uni-hamburg.de (AG)

Affiliation Research Group Virus Genomics, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Sabrina Schreiner

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Günther, Sabrina Schreiner

Affiliation Research Unit Viral Transformation, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Dobner

Affiliation Research Unit Viral Transformation, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Uwe Tessmer

Affiliation Research Group Virus Genomics, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Adam Grundhoff

thomas.guenther@hpi.uni-hamburg.de (TG); adam.grundhoff@hpi.uni-hamburg.de (AG)

Affiliation Research Group Virus Genomics, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG SS AG. Performed the experiments: TG SS UT. Analyzed the data: TG SS TD AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG SS TD AG. Wrote the paper: TG AG.