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By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes - Nature Microbiology
Insects colonized with Metarhizium fungi emit longifolene to lure new hosts for infection to disperse spores. A fungal strain was engineered to emit longifolene to attract and eliminate mosquitoes.
