Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm

Pengjun Xu; Liyu Yang; Xianming Yang; Tong Li; Robert I. Graham; Kongming Wu; Kenneth Wilson

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008467

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Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm

Pengjun Xu,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Liyu Yang,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China
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Xianming Yang,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Tong Li,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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Robert I. Graham,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Agriculture, Hartpury University, Gloucester, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-0567

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Kongming Wu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: wukongming@caas.cn (KW); ken.wilson@lancaster.ac.uk (KW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Kenneth Wilson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: wukongming@caas.cn (KW); ken.wilson@lancaster.ac.uk (KW)

Affiliation Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-6522

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Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm

Pengjun Xu,
Liyu Yang,
Xianming Yang,
Tong Li,
Robert I. Graham,
Kongming Wu,
Kenneth Wilson

Published: June 22, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008467

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