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

Aleksey V. Kachalkin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, PSCBR RAS, Pushchino, Russia

Miroslav Kolařík

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Fungal Genetics and Metabolism, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská, Prague, Czechia

Benedetta Turchetti

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

José Paulo Sampaio

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCIBIO, i4HB, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Michael J. Wingfield

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Matthew C. Fisher

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrey M. Yurkov

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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 Genetics. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.