About the Authors

B. Karina Montero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

b.karina.montero@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Animal Ecology and Conservation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Wasimuddin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

Nina Schwensow

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Mark A. F. Gillingham

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Yedidya R. Ratovonamana

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Animal Ecology and Conservation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Département Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université d’ Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

S. Jacques Rakotondranary

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Animal Ecology and Conservation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Département Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université d’ Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Victor Corman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Drosten

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jörg U. Ganzhorn

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

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Animal Ecology and Conservation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Simone Sommer

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

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.