Aphid facultative symbionts confer no protection against the fungal entomopathogen Batkoa apiculata

• Rose A. Inchauregui,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, United States of America

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• Keertana Tallapragada,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-6445

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• Benjamin J. Parker

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bjp@utk.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0679-4732

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