The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century

Carolyn Elya; Henrik De Fine Licht

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Will L. Hawkes, Özge Özden, Olivia Forster, Teddy Walliker, Katharine Lacey, Boya Gao, Jason W. Chapman, Karl R. Wotton (2023)
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Sam Edwards, Eleanor Bath, Henrik H De Fine Licht, Emily DuVal (2024)
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Sam Edwards, Henrik H. De Fine Licht (2024)
Rearing zombie flies: Laboratory culturing of the behaviourally manipulating fungal pathogen Entomophthora muscae. MethodsX 12: 102523.

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Andrii P. Gryganskyi, Yong Nie, Ann E. Hajek, Kathie T. Hodge, Xiao-Yong Liu, Kelsey Aadland, Kerstin Voigt, Iryna M. Anishchenko, Vira B. Kutovenko, Liudmyla Kava, Antonina Vuek, Rytas Vilgalys, Bo Huang, Jason E. Stajich (2022)
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Ann E. Hajek, David C. Harris (2023)
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Perumal Vivekanandhan, Kannan Swathy, Pittarate Sarayut, Krutmuang Patcharin (2024)
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Marija Milosavljević, Mara Tabaković-Tošić, Danilo Furtula, Miroslava Marković, Renata Gagić-Serdar, Natalija Momirović (2022)
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Carolyn Elya (2024)
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Raymond J. St. Leger (2024)
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Ross A. Joseph, Abolfazl Masoudi, Mateo J. Valdiviezo, Nemat O. Keyhani (2024)
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Lars Möckel, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Volker U. Schwartze, Henrik H. De Fine Licht, Kerstin Voigt, Benjamin Stielow, Sybren de Hoog, Rolf G. Beutel, Jan Buellesbach (2022)
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William C. Beckerson, Courtney Krider, Umar A. Mohammad, Charissa de Bekker (2023)
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants. Animal Behaviour 203: 225.

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Wei Zhang, Xuanyu Chen, Ioannis Eleftherianos, Amr Mohamed, Ashley Bastin, Nemat O Keyhani (2024)
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Murugan Arun Thirumeni, Kamarshi Yashkamal, R. Rafi Mohamed, M. S. Shivakumar (2024)
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