About the Authors

Vaskar Thapa

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

Affiliation Pennsylvania Game Commission, Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

Susan Hafenstein

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Barrie E. Overton

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA, United States of America

Karen J. Vanderwolf

Current address: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Affiliation New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB, Canada

Marilyn J. Roossinck

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.