About the Authors

Joseph T. Hicks

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

joseph.hicks@uga.edu (JTH); justin.bahl@uga.edu (JB)

Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Dong-Hun Lee

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Venkata R. Duvvuri

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

Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Mia Kim Torchetti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

David E. Swayne

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Justin Bahl

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

joseph.hicks@uga.edu (JTH); justin.bahl@uga.edu (JB)

Affiliations Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.