Influenza A virus segments five and six can harbor artificial introns allowing expanded coding capacity

• Heather M. Froggatt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Froggatt, Kaitlyn N. Burke

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Kaitlyn N. Burke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Froggatt, Kaitlyn N. Burke

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-4494

  ⨯
• Ryan R. Chaparian,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3838-1868

  ⨯
• Hector A. Miranda,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-6634

  ⨯
• Xinyu Zhu,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Benjamin S. Chambers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biology West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8095-5012

  ⨯
• Nicholas S. Heaton

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

  * E-mail: nicholas.heaton@duke.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Human Vaccine Institute Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-3428

  ⨯