Microsporidian Nosema bombycis hijacks host vitellogenin and restructures ovariole cells for transovarial transmission

• Chunxia Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxia Wang, Bin Yu, Xianzhi Meng, Dan Xia

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Bin Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxia Wang, Bin Yu, Xianzhi Meng, Dan Xia

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xianzhi Meng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxia Wang, Bin Yu, Xianzhi Meng, Dan Xia

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Dan Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxia Wang, Bin Yu, Xianzhi Meng, Dan Xia

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Boyan Pei,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xiangyou Tang,

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

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Guizheng Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Guangxi Institute of Sericulture Science, Nanning, People’s Republic of China

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• Junhong Wei,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Mengxian Long,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Jie Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Jialing Bao,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Chunfeng Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Guoqing Pan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Zeyang Zhou ,

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

  * E-mail: zyzhou@swu.edu.cn (ZZ); lit@swu.edu.cn (TL)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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• Tian Li

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

  * E-mail: zyzhou@swu.edu.cn (ZZ); lit@swu.edu.cn (TL)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Microsporidia Infection and Control, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4362-0130

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