About the Authors

Helena Skar

Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Skar, Ryan N. Gutenkunst

Affiliations Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ryan N. Gutenkunst

Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Skar, Ryan N. Gutenkunst

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Karin Wilbe Ramsay

Affiliations Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Annette Alaeus

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Albert

Affiliations Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Thomas Leitner

tkl@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL HS KWR JA AA. Performed the experiments: KWR AA. Analyzed the data: HS RNG TL. Wrote the paper: TL HS RNG JA. Conceived and designed the population genetics modeling: RNG TL.