Psychoactive plant- and mushroom-associated alkaloids from two behavior modifying cicada pathogens
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) July 24, 2018 Greg R. Boyce, Emile Gluck‐thaler, Jason C. Slot et al. 1 citation preprint
Abstract Entomopathogenic fungi routinely kill their hosts before releasing infectious spores, but select species keep insects alive while sporulating, which enhances dispersal. Transcriptomics and metabolomics studies of entomopathogens with post-mortem dissemination from their parasitized hosts have unraveled infection processes and host responses, yet mechanisms underlying active spore...