About the Authors

Andrii P. Gryganskyi

apg10@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard A. Humber

Affiliation USDA-ARS BioIPM Research, RW Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jason E. Stajich

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

Bradley Mullens

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Iryna M. Anishchenko

Affiliation M. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Rytas Vilgalys

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APG RV. Performed the experiments: APG RAH BM. Analyzed the data: APG RAH JES IMA RV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JES BM RV. Wrote the paper: APG RAH JES BM IMA RV.