About the Authors

Cristina M. Dorobantu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Lucian Albulescu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Christian Harak

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Qian Feng

Current address: Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mirjam van Kampen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jeroen R. P. M. Strating

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Volker Lohmann

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hilde M. van der Schaar

Contributed equally to this work with: Hilde M. van der Schaar, Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld

Contributed equally to this work with: Hilde M. van der Schaar, Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld

f.j.m.vankuppeveld@uu.nl

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMD LA CH QF MvK JRPMS AEG VL HMvdS FJMvK. Performed the experiments: CMD LA CH QF MvK JRPMS AEG HMvdS. Analyzed the data: CMD LA CH QF MvK JRPMS AEG VL HMvdS FJMvK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LA CH VL. Wrote the paper: CMD CH JRPMS AEG VL HMvdS FJMvK.