About the Authors

Marcos Pérez-Losada

mlosada323@gmail.com

Affiliation CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

David V. Jobes

Affiliation Jobes Consulting Service, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Faruk Sinangil

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Keith A. Crandall

Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Miguel Arenas

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

David Posada

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Phillip W. Berman

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DVJ FS PWB. Performed the experiments: DVJ FS PWB. Analyzed the data: MPL DP MA KAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DVJ FS PWB MPL DP MA KAC. Wrote the paper: MPL KAC DP MA DVJ FS PWB.