Mycodnaviridae is a clade of giant viruses that persistently infect zoosporic fungi

• Jillian M. Myers,

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

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8708-7457

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• Frederik Schulz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Saleh Rahimlou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Vikas Yadav,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Kevin R. Amses,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• David Rabern Simmons,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Sheng Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Michelle Orozco-Quime,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Joseph Heitman,

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

  Affiliation Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jason E. Stajich ,

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

  * E-mail: jason.stajich@ucr.edu (JES); tyjames@umich.edu (TYJ)

  Affiliation Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Timothy Y. James

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

  * E-mail: jason.stajich@ucr.edu (JES); tyjames@umich.edu (TYJ)

  Affiliations Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, University of Michigan Herbarium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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