Distinctive features of the respiratory syncytial virus priming loop compared to other non-segmented negative strand RNA viruses

• Tessa N. Cressey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Afzaal M. Shareef,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Victoria A. Kleiner,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah L. Noton,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Patrick O. Byrne,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Jason S. McLellan,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Elke Mühlberger,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rachel Fearns

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

  * E-mail: rfearns@bu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0783-7498

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