Table 1. Fungal strains and plasmids used in this study.

Fungal strains	Genotype or description	Source or reference
P. brasiliensis IVIC Pb73	Phylogenetic group PS3†	ATCC 32071
H. capsulatum WU8	G186A ura5-Δ32	[23]
H. capsulatum WU11	G186A ura5-Δ31 ags1-Δ3::hph	[23]
H. capsulatum WU8	G186A ura5-Δ31 amy1-Δ1::hph	[23]
Plasmids
pCR41	PaURA5 PCBP1	[11]
pEC87	PaURA5 PCBP1-PbAMY1	This study
pEC90	PaURA5 PAMY1-PbAMY1	This study
pQE30Xa	E. coli specific vector for high.level expression of N-terminal 6xHis-tagged proteins.	Qiagen, Germany
pQE30Xa-AMY	pQE30Xa containing PbAMY1 cDNA	This study

hph, hygromycin phosphotransferase (hygromycin resistance).

PaURA5, Podospora anserina URA5 gene.

PbAMY1, P. brasiliensis AMY1 gene.

P_CBP1, 889 bp upstream of the H. capsulatum CBP1 gene.

P_AMY1, 1.950 bp upstream of the P. brasiliensis AMY1 gene.

^†Defined by [2].