About the Authors

Patricia Valente

Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia Valente, Teun Boekhout

patricia.valente@ufrgs.br

Affiliations Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil

Teun Boekhout

Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia Valente, Teun Boekhout

Affiliation Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Melissa Fontes Landell

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil

Juliana Crestani

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil

Fernando Carlos Pagnocca

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Microbiologia, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro - SP, Brazil

Lara Durães Sette

Affiliations Departamento de Bioquímica e Microbiologia, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro - SP, Brazil, Coleção Brasileira de Micro-organismos de Ambiente e Indústria, Divisão de Recursos Microbianos-Centro Pluridisciplinar de Pesquisas Quimicas, Biologicas e Agricolas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas – SP, Brazil

Michel Rodrigo Zambrano Passarini

Affiliation Coleção Brasileira de Micro-organismos de Ambiente e Indústria, Divisão de Recursos Microbianos-Centro Pluridisciplinar de Pesquisas Quimicas, Biologicas e Agricolas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas – SP, Brazil

Carlos Augusto Rosa

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil

Luciana R. Brandão

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil

Raphael S. Pimenta

Affiliation Laboratório de Microbiologia Ambiental e Biotecnologia, Campus Universitário de Palmas, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas - TO, Brazil

José Roberto Ribeiro

Affiliation Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil

Karina Marques Garcia

Affiliation Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil

Ching-Fu Lee

Affiliation Department of Applied Science, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Sung-Oui Suh

Affiliation Mycology and Botany Program, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Gábor Péter

Affiliation National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Faculty of Food Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Dénes Dlauchy

Affiliation National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Faculty of Food Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Jack W. Fell

Affiliation Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Key Biscayne, Florida, United States of America

Gloria Scorzetti

Affiliation Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Key Biscayne, Florida, United States of America

Bart Theelen

Affiliation Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Marilene H. Vainstein

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil

Competing Interests

S-OS is affiliated to American Type Culture Collection and TB and BT are affiliated to Centrallbureau voor Schimmelcultures Fungal Biodiversity Centre. BANDEIRANTE Energy S. A. provided funding for this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PV MFL TB JF GS BT FCP CAR C-FL S-OS GP DD MHV. Performed the experiments: MFL JC TB JF GS BT MRZP LRB RSP JRR KMG C-FL S-OS GP DD. Analyzed the data: PV TB JF GS BT FCP CAR JRR C-FL S-OS GP DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHV TB FCP LDS CAR C-FL S-OS GP DD. Wrote the paper: PV TB JF FCP CAR JRR C-FL S-OS GP.