About the Authors

Laura H. Okagaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura H. Okagaki, Anna K. Strain

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Anna K. Strain

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura H. Okagaki, Anna K. Strain

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Judith N. Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Caroline Charlier

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire and CNRS URA3012, Paris, France

Nicholas J. Baltes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Fabrice Chrétien

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire and CNRS URA3012, Paris, France, Faculté de médecine; Université Paris XII; APHP Hôpital Henri Mondor and INSERM U955 team10, Paris, France

Joseph Heitman

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Medicine, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Françoise Dromer

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire and CNRS URA3012, Paris, France

Kirsten Nielsen

knielsen@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LHO AKS FC FD KN. Performed the experiments: LHO AKS JNN CC NJB FC KN. Analyzed the data: LHO AKS CC FC KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNN CC FC JH FD KN. Wrote the paper: LHO KN.