About the Authors

Hiroshi Katoh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

kato0704@nih.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Sekizuka

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Yuichiro Nakatsu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Reiko Nakagawa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Phyloinformatics, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Hyogo, Japan

Naganori Nao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Masafumi Sakata

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Fumihiro Kato

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Kuroda

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Kidokoro

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Takeda

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.