About the Authors
- Vaskar Thapa
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
- Gregory G. Turner
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Affiliation Pennsylvania Game Commission, Harrisburg, PA, United States of America
- Susan Hafenstein
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America
- Barrie E. Overton
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA, United States of America
- Karen J. Vanderwolf
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Current address: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Affiliation New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB, Canada
- Marilyn J. Roossinck
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* E-mail: mjr25@psu.edu
¶‡ MJR is a senior author on this work.
Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: MJR. Formal analysis: VT MJR. Funding acquisition: GGT KJV MJR. Investigation: VT SH. Methodology: VT GGT BEO MJR. Project administration: GGT MJR. Resources: VT GGT KJV BEO. Supervision: MJR. Validation: VT. Visualization: VT SH. Writing – original draft: VT MJR. Writing – review & editing: VT GGT SH BEO KJV MJR.