Tryptamine accumulation caused by deletion of MrMao-1 in Metarhizium genome significantly enhances insecticidal virulence

• Xiwen Tong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiwen Tong, Yundan Wang

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yundan Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiwen Tong, Yundan Wang

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

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Pengcheng Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5496-8357

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• Chengshu Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation 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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• Le Kang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lkang@ioz.ac.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-2329

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