About the Authors

Carla J. Eaton

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla J. Eaton, Ilva E. Cabrera

Current address: Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Ilva E. Cabrera

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla J. Eaton, Ilva E. Cabrera

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jacqueline A. Servin

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Sara J. Wright

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Murray P. Cox

Affiliation Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, The Bio-Protection Research Centre and The Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Katherine A. Borkovich

Katherine.Borkovich@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAB CJE IEC SJW . Performed the experiments: CJE IEC JAS. Analyzed the data: KAB CJE IEC JAS MPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJW. Wrote the paper: KAB CJE IEC JAS.