About the Authors

Andres Baena

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan R. Mootnick

Contributed equally to this work with: Alan R. Mootnick, James V. Falvo, Alla V. Tsytsykova

Affiliation Gibbon Conservation Center, Santa Clarita, California, United States of America

James V. Falvo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alan R. Mootnick, James V. Falvo, Alla V. Tsytsykova

Affiliation The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alla V. Tsytsykova

Contributed equally to this work with: Alan R. Mootnick, James V. Falvo, Alla V. Tsytsykova

Affiliation The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Filipa Ligeiro

Affiliation The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ousmane M. Diop

Affiliation Laboratoire de Rétrovirologie, Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal

Claudia Brieva

Affiliation Unidad de Rescate y Rehabilitación de Animales Silvestres, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Pascal Gagneux

Affiliation Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Stephen J. O'Brien

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Oliver A. Ryder

Affiliations Conservation and Research for Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Anne E. Goldfeld

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: goldfeld@cbrinstitute.org

Affiliation The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG AT AB. Performed the experiments: AT FL AB. Analyzed the data: OR AG AT JF AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO OR AM OD PG CB. Wrote the paper: AG JF.