A mycovirus enhances fitness of an insect pathogenic fungus and potentially modulates virulence through interactions between viral and host proteins

• Najie Shi ,

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

  ¶☯ NS and GY contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Guogen Yang ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ NS and GY contributed equally to 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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• Ping Wang,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Yulong Wang,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Lili He,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Rui Xie,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Yang Yang,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Deshui Yu,

  Roles Supervision

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

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• Robert H. A. Coutts,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science, School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, United Kingdom

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• Ioly Kotta-Loizou ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science, School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Bo Huang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6032-7396

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