About the Authors

Ezequiel Balmori Melian

Contributed equally to this work with: Ezequiel Balmori Melian, Sonja Hall-Mendelin

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Sonja Hall-Mendelin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ezequiel Balmori Melian, Sonja Hall-Mendelin

Affiliation Virology, Public and Environmental Health, Forensic and Scientific Services, Department of Health, Queensland Government, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia

Fangyao Du

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Nick Owens

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Angela M. Bosco-Lauth

Affiliations Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Tomoko Nagasaki

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Stephen Rudd

Affiliation Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Aaron C. Brault

Affiliation Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Richard A. Bowen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Roy A. Hall

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Andrew F. van den Hurk

Affiliation Virology, Public and Environmental Health, Forensic and Scientific Services, Department of Health, Queensland Government, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia

Alexander A. Khromykh

a.khromykh@uq.edu.au

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

We were unable to contact Fangyao Du, listed as an author of this paper, to confirm his involvement in the latest version. The corresponding author, Alexander Khromykh, has therefore supplied the information regarding his contribution to the manuscript and his competing interests and it is correct to the best of his knowledge. The authors are not aware of any other potential conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EBM SHM ACB RAB AFvdH AAK. Performed the experiments: EBM SHM FD NO AMBL TN ACB RAB AFvdH AAK. Analyzed the data: EMB SHM SR ACB RAB RAH AFvdH AAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR. Wrote the paper: EBM SHM ACB RAH AFvdH AAK.