Acknowledgements
TR Barnard would like to thank the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s for graduate support. MM Rajah would like to thank the McGill University Faculty of Medicine Max E. Binz Fellowship for graduate support.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
This work was supported by startup funds from McGill University as well as operating funds from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et Technologies (#189120). SM Sagan is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in RNA Biology and Viral Infections. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.