Functional Divergence among Silkworm Antimicrobial Peptide Paralogs by the Activities of Recombinant Proteins and the Induced Expression Profiles

• Wanying Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wanying Yang, Tingcai Cheng

  Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Tingcai Cheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wanying Yang, Tingcai Cheng

  Affiliation Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

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• Mingqiang Ye,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, The Sericulture & Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Xiaojuan Deng,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Huiyu Yi,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yadong Huang,

  Affiliation Biopharmaceutical Research and Development Center, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

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• Xiang Tan,

  Affiliation Institute of Sericulture and Systems Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Dong Han,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Bo Wang,

  Affiliation Institute of Sericulture and Systems Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Zhonghuai Xiang,

  Affiliation Institute of Sericulture and Systems Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Yang Cao ,

  * E-mail: caoyang@scau.edu.cn (YC); xiaqy@swu.edu.cn (QX)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Qingyou Xia

  * E-mail: caoyang@scau.edu.cn (YC); xiaqy@swu.edu.cn (QX)

  Affiliations Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, Institute of Sericulture and Systems Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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