Duplication of a Pks gene cluster and subsequent functional diversification facilitate environmental adaptation in Metarhizium species

• Guohong Zeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guohong Zeng, Peng Zhang, Qiangqiang Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Peng Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guohong Zeng, Peng Zhang, Qiangqiang Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Qiangqiang Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guohong Zeng, Peng Zhang, Qiangqiang Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Hong Zhao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Zixin Li,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Chengshu Wang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1477-1466

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• Wen-Bing Yin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-3198

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• Weiguo Fang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wfang1@zju.edu.cn

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8431-8256

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