About the Authors

Chris Lauber

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jelle J. Goeman

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Maria del Carmen Parquet

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Global COE Program, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Phan Thi Nga

Affiliation Department of Virology, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Eric J. Snijder

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Kouichi Morita

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Global COE Program, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Alexander E. Gorbalenya

a.e.gorbalenya@lumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEG CL. Performed the experiments: CL. Analyzed the data: CL AEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJG MdCP PTN EJS KM. Wrote the paper: CL AEG. Contributed to manuscript revisions: JJG EJS.