Cocoonase is indispensable for Lepidoptera insects breaking the sealed cocoon

• Tingting Gai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tingting Gai, Xiaoling Tong

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

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Xiaoling Tong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tingting Gai, Xiaoling Tong

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

  * E-mail: xltong@swu.edu.cn (XT); fydai@swu.edu.cn (FD)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-899X

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• Minjin Han,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-8676

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• Chunlin Li,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Chunyan Fang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Yunlong Zou,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0291-7894

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• Hai Hu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Hui Xiang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology, Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8695-9006

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• Zhonghuai Xiang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Cheng Lu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Fangyin Dai

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

  * E-mail: xltong@swu.edu.cn (XT); fydai@swu.edu.cn (FD)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory of Sericultural Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0215-2177

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