About the Authors

Simon Käfer

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Käfer, Sofia Paraskevopoulou

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

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University, Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Sofia Paraskevopoulou

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Käfer, Sofia Paraskevopoulou

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

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University, Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Florian Zirkel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Current address: Biotest AG, Dreieich, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Nicolas Wieseke

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Swarm Intelligence and Complex Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Alexander Donath

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Malte Petersen

Roles Software

Affiliation Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Terry C. Jones

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University, Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Center for Pathogen Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Shanlin Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, China Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Xin Zhou

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Martin Middendorf

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Swarm Intelligence and Complex Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Sandra Junglen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

sandra.junglen@charite.de (SJ); bmisof@zfmk.uni-bonn.de (BM); christian.drosten@charite.de (CD)

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University, Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), associated partner site Charité, Berlin, Germany

Bernhard Misof

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sandra.junglen@charite.de (SJ); bmisof@zfmk.uni-bonn.de (BM); christian.drosten@charite.de (CD)

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Christian Drosten

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sandra.junglen@charite.de (SJ); bmisof@zfmk.uni-bonn.de (BM); christian.drosten@charite.de (CD)

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University, Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), associated partner site Charité, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.