About the Authors

Johanna West

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Juliane Röder

Roles Investigation

Current address: BioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Tatyana Matrosovich

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Jana Beicht

Roles Investigation

Current address: Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Jan Baumann

Roles Investigation

Current address: WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Nancy Mounogou Kouassi

Roles Investigation

Current address: Department for Viral Zoonoses-One Health, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Jennifer Doedt

Roles Investigation

Current address: Myriad International GmbH, Köln, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Nicolai Bovin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Gianpiero Zamperin

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy

Michele Gastaldelli

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy

Annalisa Salviato

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy

Francesco Bonfante

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy

Sergei Kosakovsky Pond

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sander Herfst

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Ron Fouchier

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Jochen Wilhelm

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Giessen, Germany

Hans-Dieter Klenk

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Mikhail Matrosovich

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

m.matrosovich@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.