Ecdysone signaling mediates the trade-off between immunity and reproduction via suppression of amyloids in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

• Mao Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mao Wang, Yanhong Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Yanhong Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mao Wang, Yanhong Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Mengmeng Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xueli Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Zuokun Shi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Alexander S. Raikhel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alexander.raikhel@ucr.edu (ASR); zouzhen@ioz.ac.cn (ZZ)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Zhen Zou

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

  * E-mail: alexander.raikhel@ucr.edu (ASR); zouzhen@ioz.ac.cn (ZZ)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-7656

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