The AalNix3&4 isoform is required and sufficient to convert Aedes albopictus females into males

• Yijie Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yijie Zhao, Binbin Jin, Peiwen Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Binbin Jin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yijie Zhao, Binbin Jin, Peiwen Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2429-8481

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• Peiwen Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yijie Zhao, Binbin Jin, Peiwen Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8175-4060

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• Xiaolin Xiao,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6173-8127

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• Lijun Cai,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0373-0669

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• Zhensheng Xie,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Ling Kong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Tong Liu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-1860

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• Wenqiang Yang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yang Wu,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-5566

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• Jinbao Gu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhijian Tu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and the Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-3819

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• Anthony A. James,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine California United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine California United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5577-3308

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• Xiao-Guang Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: xgchen@smu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-691X

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