Members of chitin synthase family in Metarhizium acridum differentially affect fungal growth, stress tolerances, cell wall integrity and virulence

• Junjie Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Zhang, Hui Jiang, Yanru Du

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticide, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation Technologies under Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, Chongqing, PR China

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• Hui Jiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Zhang, Hui Jiang, Yanru Du

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticide, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation Technologies under Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, Chongqing, PR China

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• Yanru Du ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Zhang, Hui Jiang, Yanru Du

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticide, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation Technologies under Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, Chongqing, PR China

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• Nemat O. Keyhani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Yuxian Xia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: yuxianxia@cqu.edu.cn (YX); jinkai@cqu.edu.cn (KJ)

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticide, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation Technologies under Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, Chongqing, PR China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5551-703X

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• Kai Jin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: yuxianxia@cqu.edu.cn (YX); jinkai@cqu.edu.cn (KJ)

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticide, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation Technologies under Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, Chongqing, PR China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8916-6960

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