Confirmation of independent introductions of an exotic plant pathogen of Cornus species, Discula destructiva, on the east and west coasts of North America

• Kristie Mantooth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kristie Mantooth, Denita Hadziabdic

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Denita Hadziabdic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kristie Mantooth, Denita Hadziabdic

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Sarah Boggess,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Mark Windham,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Stephen Miller,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, APHIS PPQ, Linden, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Guohong Cai,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Joseph Spatafora,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Ning Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Meg Staton,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Bonnie Ownley,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert Trigiano

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

  * E-mail: rtrigian@utk.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-1822

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