A large accessory genome and high recombination rates may influence global distribution and broad host range of the fungal plant pathogen Claviceps purpurea

• Stephen Wyka,

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

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Stephen Mondo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Miao Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9129-7062

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• Vamsi Nalam,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-118X

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• Kirk Broders

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kirk.broders@usda.gov

  Affiliations USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research Unit, Peoria, IL, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Panamá, República de Panamá

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8569-6005

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