Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cyt2Ba in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana increases its virulence towards Aedes mosquitoes

Sheng-Qun Deng; Wei-Hao Zou; Dong-Liang Li; Jia-Ting Chen; Qiang Huang; Li-Juan Zhou; Xiao-Xue Tian; Yi-Jun Chen; Hong-Juan Peng

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007590

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Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cyt2Ba in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana increases its virulence towards Aedes mosquitoes

Sheng-Qun Deng,

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

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Wei-Hao Zou,

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Dong-Liang Li,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Jia-Ting Chen,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Qiang Huang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Li-Juan Zhou,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Xiao-Xue Tian,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Yi-Jun Chen,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Hong-Juan Peng

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: floriapeng@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9345-8218

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Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cyt2Ba in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana increases its virulence towards Aedes mosquitoes

Sheng-Qun Deng,
Wei-Hao Zou,
Dong-Liang Li,
Jia-Ting Chen,
Qiang Huang,
Li-Juan Zhou,
Xiao-Xue Tian,
Yi-Jun Chen,
Hong-Juan Peng

Published: July 15, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007590

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