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Comparative genomics of Beauveria bassiana: uncovering signatures of virulence against mosquitoes.
BMC genomics - 1 Dec 2016
Valero-Jiménez Claudio A, Faino Luigi, Spring In't Veld Daphne, Smit Sandra, Zwaan Bas J, van Kan Jan A L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana are promising biological agents for control of malaria mosquitoes. Indeed, infection with B. bassiana reduces the lifespan of mosquitoes in the laboratory and in the field. Natural isolates of B. bassiana show up to 10-fold differences in virulence between the most and the least virulent isolate. In this study, we sequenced the genomes of five isolates...
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