About the Authors

Cécile Troupin

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

Laurent Dacheux

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

Marion Tanguy

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Genomics Platform, Paris, France

Claude Sabeta

Affiliation Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, OIE Rabies Reference Laboratory, Pretoria, South Africa

Hervé Blanc

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 3569, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit, Paris, France

Christiane Bouchier

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genomics Platform, Paris, France

Marco Vignuzzi

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 3569, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit, Paris, France

Sebastián Duchene

Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Systems Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Edward C. Holmes

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Hervé Bourhy

hbourhy@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT LD ECH HBo. Performed the experiments: CT MT HBl CB ECH. Analyzed the data: CT LD MT SD ECH HBo. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CT LD CS HBl CB MV HBo. Wrote the paper: CT LD CS CB MV SD ECH HBo.