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Tenebrionid secretions and a fungal benzoquinone oxidoreductase form competing components of an arms race between a host and pathogen.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Jul 2015
Pedrini Nicolás, Ortiz-Urquiza Almudena, Huarte-Bonnet Carla, Fan Yanhua, Juárez M Patricia, Keyhani Nemat O
Abstract excerpt
Entomopathogenic fungi and their insect hosts represent a model system for examining invertebrate-pathogen coevolutionary selection processes. Here we report the characterization of competing components of an arms race consisting of insect protective antimicrobial compounds and evolving fungal mechanisms of detoxification. The insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana has a remarkably wide host range; however,...
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