Intercellular communication is required for trap formation in the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans

• Loubna Youssar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Loubna Youssar, Valentin Wernet, Nicole Hensel

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Valentin Wernet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Loubna Youssar, Valentin Wernet, Nicole Hensel

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Nicole Hensel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Loubna Youssar, Valentin Wernet, Nicole Hensel

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Xi Yu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Heinz-Georg Hildebrand,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-636X

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• Birgit Schreckenberger,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Marius Kriegler,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Birgit Hetzer,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Max Rubner Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8471-5748

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• Phillip Frankino,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Andrew Dillin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Reinhard Fischer

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: reinhard.fischer@KIT.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)—South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6704-2569

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