A novel partitivirus orchestrates conidiation, stress response, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolism of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium majus

• Ping Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Wang, Guogen Yang

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

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Pest Control, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Guogen Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Wang, Guogen Yang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops, School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Najie Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Pest Control, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Cheng Zhao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Pest Control, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Fenglin Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Pest Control, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Robert H. A. Coutts,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Ioly Kotta-Loizou ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: i.kotta-loizou13@imperial.ac.uk (IK-L); bhuang@ahau.edu.cn (BH)

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Bo Huang

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

  * E-mail: i.kotta-loizou13@imperial.ac.uk (IK-L); bhuang@ahau.edu.cn (BH)

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Pest Control, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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