Insect fungal pathogens secrete a cell wall-associated glucanase that acts to help avoid recognition by the host immune system

• Huifang Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhuoyue Lu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Nemat O. Keyhani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Juan Deng,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xin Zhao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Shuaishuai Huang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhibing Luo,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Kai Jin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Genetic Engineering Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Yongjun Zhang

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

  * E-mail: yjzhang@swu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8101-4313

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