A vector whitefly endocytic receptor facilitates the entry of begomoviruses into its midgut cells via binding to virion capsid proteins

• Jing Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Zhao, Teng Lei

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Teng Lei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Zhao, Teng Lei

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0201-8119

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• Xin-Jia Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Tian-Yan Yin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Xiao-Wei Wang,

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

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Shu-Sheng Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shshliu@zju.edu.cn

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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