About the Authors

Hongquan Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongquan Wan, Erin M. Sorrell

Current address: Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Erin M. Sorrell

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongquan Wan, Erin M. Sorrell

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Haichen Song

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Md Jaber Hossain

Current address: Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Gloria Ramirez-Nieto

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Isabella Monne

Affiliation OIE, FAO and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell'Università, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

James Stevens

Affiliation Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Giovanni Cattoli

Affiliation OIE, FAO and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell'Università, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

Ilaria Capua

Affiliation OIE, FAO and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell'Università, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

Li-Mei Chen

Affiliation Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ruben O. Donis

Affiliation Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Julia Busch

Affiliations Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James C. Paulson

Affiliations Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christy Brockwell

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard Webby

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jorge Blanco

Affiliation Virion Systems, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mohammad Q. Al-Natour

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

Daniel R. Perez

dperez1@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRP. Performed the experiments: HW EMS HS MJH GRN JCS Jb JP CB. Analyzed the data: HW EMS HS JCS ROD Jb JP RJW DRP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM JCS GC IC LMC JP RJW JB MQAN. Wrote the paper: HW EMS JCS JP DRP.