Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii are pathogenic, dimorphic, soil-dwelling Ascomycetes in the Onygenales order. On average, both Coccidioides species have 29 Mb haploid genomes, containing approximately 10,000 open reading frames (ORFs) on five chromosomes [1]. Coccidioides’most recent common ancestor underwent gene family expansions for proteases and keratinases, membrane biology genes, an...