About the Authors

Burkhard R Braun

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Marco van het Hoog

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Christophe d'Enfert

Affiliation Unité Postulante Biologie et Pathogénicité Fongiques, INRA USC 2019, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Mikhail Martchenko

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jan Dungan

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alan Kuo

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Diane O Inglis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

M. Andrew Uhl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hervé Hogues

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Matthew Berriman

Affiliation The Sanger Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Lorenz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Utah-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anastasia Levitin

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ursula Oberholzer

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Catherine Bachewich

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Doreen Harcus

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Anne Marcil

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Daniel Dignard

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tatiana Iouk

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rosa Zito

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lionel Frangeul

Affiliation Plate-Forme Intégration et Analyse Génomique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Fredj Tekaia

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Kim Rutherford

Affiliation The Sanger Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Edwin Wang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carol A Munro

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Steve Bates

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Neil A Gow

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Lois L Hoyer

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gerwald Köhler

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joachim Morschhäuser

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Universität Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

George Newport

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sadri Znaidi

Affiliation Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Martine Raymond

Affiliation Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Bernard Turcotte

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gavin Sherlock

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Maria Costanzo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Jan Ihmels

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Judith Berman

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Dominique Sanglard

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Nina Agabian

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Aaron P Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexander D Johnson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Malcolm Whiteway

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

André Nantel

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: andre.nantel@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

BRB is an employee of both Incyte and University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Incyte played no role in this work, and the resources used were all from UCSF.

Author Contributions

BRB, CD, JD, DOI, MB, ML, APM, ADJ, MW, and AN conceived and designed the experiments. BRB, MM, JD, DOI, MAV, AL, VO, CB, DH, AM, DD, TL, RZ, MW, and AN performed the experiments. BRB, MV, CD, AK, HH, MB, CAM, SB, NAG, LLH, GK, JM, GN, SZ, MR, BT, JHI, JB, DS, NA, MW, and AN analyzed the data. BRB, MV, CD, JD, AK, DOI, MAV, HH, MB, ML, LF, FT, KR, EW, GS, MC, NA, APM, ADJ, and AN contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. BRB, CD, AK, MB, EW, NAG, LLH, GK, JM, GN, SZ, MR, BT, GS, JB, DS, ADJ, MW, and AN wrote the paper.