About the Authors

Juliane Marie Theiss

Affiliations Research Group Virus Genomics, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Günther

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

Malik Alawi

Affiliations Research Group Virus Genomics, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany, Bioinformatics Service Facility, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Friederike Neumann

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Uwe Tessmer

† Deceased.

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

Nicole Fischer

nfischer@uke.de (NF); adam.grundhoff@hpi.uni-hamburg.de (AG)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Adam Grundhoff

nfischer@uke.de (NF); 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: JMT NF AG. Performed the experiments: JMT TG FN UT MA. Analyzed the data: JMT TG MA NF AG. Wrote the paper: JMT NF AG.