Host diversity and behavior determine patterns of interspecies transmission and geographic diffusion of avian influenza A subtypes among North American wild reservoir species

• Joseph T. Hicks,

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

  Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-8099

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• Kimberly Edwards,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Xueting Qiu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6810-7304

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• Do-Kyun Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7524-2379

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• James E. Hixson,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Scott Krauss,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Richard J. Webby,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4397-7132

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• Robert G. Webster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1899-1856

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• Justin Bahl

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

  * E-mail: justin.bahl@uga.edu

  Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-4300

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