About the Authors
- Ruchira Sen
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Current address: MCM DAV College, Sector 36A, Chandigarh, 160036, India
Affiliation Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
- Rhitoban Raychoudhury
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Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Sector 81, S. A. S. Nagar, Manauli, PO 140306, India
Affiliation Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
- Yunpeng Cai
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Current address: Research Center for Biomedical Information Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
- Yijun Sun
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Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology & New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States of America
Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
- Verena-Ulrike Lietze
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Affiliation Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
- Brittany F. Peterson
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Affiliation Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
- Michael E. Scharf
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* E-mail: mscharf@purdue.edu
Affiliation Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
- Drion G. Boucias
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Affiliation Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DGB MES. Wrote the paper: MES DGB. Bioinformatic, KEGG, and GO analyses, ran qRT-PCRs, prepared tables and figures: RS RR. Analyzed the microarray data: YC YS. Conducted bioassays and RNA isolation for the microarray: VUL. Performed 16S qPCR: BFP. Performed post-hoc protist and bacterial counts and isolated bacterial DNA: DGB.