About the Authors

Marco A. Coelho

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco A. Coelho, Márcia David-Palma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marco.dias.coelho@duke.edu (MAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Márcia David-Palma

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco A. Coelho, Márcia David-Palma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Seonju Marincowitz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Janneke Aylward

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Nam Q. Pham

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Andrey M. Yurkov

Roles Resources, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Brenda D. Wingfield

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Michael J. Wingfield

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Sheng Sun

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph Heitman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

marco.dias.coelho@duke.edu (MAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.H. serves on the Editorial Board of PLOS Biology and is a Co-Director and Fellow of the CIFAR program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities (https://cifar.ca/research/program/fungal-kingdom/). All the other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.