Lysine provisioning by horizontally acquired genes promotes mutual dependence between whitefly and two intracellular symbionts

• Xi-Yu Bao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi-Yu Bao, Jin-Yang Yan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory of Economic and Applied Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

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• Jin-Yang Yan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi-Yu Bao, Jin-Yang Yan

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory of Economic and Applied Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

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• Ya-Lin Yao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory of Economic and Applied Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

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• Yan-Bin Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory of Economic and Applied Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

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• Paul Visendi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy, Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-7710

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• Susan Seal,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Agriculture, Health and Environment Department, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom

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• Jun-Bo Luan

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

  * E-mail: jbluan@syau.edu.cn

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory of Economic and Applied Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9790-2048

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