Divergent bornaviruses from Australian carpet pythons with neurological disease date the origin of extant Bornaviridae prior to the end-Cretaceous extinction

• Timothy H. Hyndman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy H. Hyndman, Mark D. Stenglein, James F. X. Wellehan Jr.

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

  * E-mail: t.hyndman@murdoch.edu.au

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4083-562X

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• Catherine M. Shilton,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Berrimah Veterinary Laboratories, Department of Primary Industry and Resources, Northern Territory Government, Berrimah, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Mark D. Stenglein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy H. Hyndman, Mark D. Stenglein, James F. X. Wellehan Jr.

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0993-813X

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• James F. X. Wellehan Jr.

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy H. Hyndman, Mark D. Stenglein, James F. X. Wellehan Jr.

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

  Affiliation Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5692-6134

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