About the Authors

Erin A. Mack

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yu-Ping Xiao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Samantha Quesada

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

David R. Allred

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

allredd@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.