Tad pilus-mediated twitching motility is essential for DNA uptake and survival of Liberibacters

• Lulu Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lulu Cai, Mukesh Jain

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Mukesh Jain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lulu Cai, Mukesh Jain

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

  Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3993-9467

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• Marta Sena-Vélez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

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• Kathryn M. Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

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• Laura A. Fleites,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Michelle Heck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Dean W. Gabriel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dgabr@ufl.edu

  Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5609-5315

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