About the Authors

Peter J. Kerr

Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia

Isabella M. Cattadori

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States of America

Matthew B. Rogers

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States of America

Adam Fitch

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States of America

Adam Geber

Affiliation Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States of America

June Liu

Affiliation CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia

Derek G. Sim

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States of America

Brian Boag

Affiliation The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom

John-Sebastian Eden

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

Elodie Ghedin

Affiliation Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States of America

Andrew F. Read

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States of America, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States of America

Edward C. Holmes

edward.holmes@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PJK IMC AFR ECH. Formal analysis: MBR AF AG JSE. Funding acquisition: PJK IMC EG AF ECH. Investigation: PJK MBR AF AG JL DGS BB JSE EG ECH. Methodology: PJK IMC EG. Resources: BB. Supervision: EG AFR ECH. Writing – original draft: PJK IMC ECH. Writing – review & editing: PJK IMC MBR BB JSE EG AFR ECH.