About the Authors

Jens C. Frisvad

jcf@bio.dtu.dk

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Neriman Yilmaz

Affiliations CBS–KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ulf Thrane

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Kasper Bøwig Rasmussen

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Jos Houbraken

Affiliation CBS–KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Robert A. Samson

Affiliation CBS–KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

A commercial funder (Agilent Technologies) has provided some instruments via an Agilent Thought Leader Award to Jens C. Frisvad. This commercial funder (along with any other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc.) does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCF NY JH RAS. Performed the experiments: JCF NY KBR JH. Analyzed the data: JCF NY UT KBR JH RAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCF NY KBR. Wrote the manuscript: JCF NY. Read and improved the draft paper: JCF NY UT KBR JH RAS.