About the Authors

Joshua Chang Mell

Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua Chang Mell, Cristina Viadas

joshua.mell@drexelmed.edu (JCM); juncal.garmendia@unavarra.es (JG)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Center for Genomic Sciences, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cristina Viadas

Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua Chang Mell, Cristina Viadas

Affiliation Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, CSIC-Universidad Pública Navarra-Gobierno, Navarra, Spain

Javier Moleres

Affiliation Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, CSIC-Universidad Pública Navarra-Gobierno, Navarra, Spain

Sunita Sinha

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the UBC Sequencing Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ariadna Fernández-Calvet

Affiliation Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, CSIC-Universidad Pública Navarra-Gobierno, Navarra, Spain

Eric A. Porsch

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph W. St. Geme III

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Corey Nislow

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the UBC Sequencing Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rosemary J. Redfield

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Junkal Garmendia

joshua.mell@drexelmed.edu (JCM); juncal.garmendia@unavarra.es (JG)

Affiliations Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, CSIC-Universidad Pública Navarra-Gobierno, Navarra, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCM JG RJR. Performed the experiments: JCM CV JG SS JM AFC EAP. Analyzed the data: JCM CV JG JM AFC EAP SS RJR JWSG CN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG JCM CN RJR JWSG. Wrote the paper: JCM JG RJR CN.