Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB 1441677
to MES; DEB 1441715 to JES). Additional funding was provided by the
Department of Plant Pathology, the USDA-NIFA under award number
FLA-PLP-005289 and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences at
the University of Florida. We thank Tim James (University of Michigan)
and William J. Davis (USDA Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and
Biology Lab) for sharing Zoopagales DNA samples used to generate
reference rDNA sequences and in the mock community. We also appreciate
the guidance and input from Gerald Benny (University of Florida) who
provided access to the zygomycete culture collection and helped with the
culture work. The environmental sampling was performed at the University
of California Natural Reserve System James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
(doi: 10.21973/N3KQ0T) and Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research
Center (doi: 10.21973/N3S942) and at the University of Florida
Ordway-Swisher Biological Station (https://ordway-swisher.ufl.edu/) in
Putnam County, Florida.