Metarhizium pinghaense
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Metarhizium pinghaense
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Metarhizium pinghaense is a species of entomopathogenic fungus in the family Clavicipitaceae. Some authorities have it as a synonym of Metarhizium anisopliae. DNA studies show that it is a good species, with strong bootstrap support. Researchers in Burkina Faso have created a strain of M. metarhizium genetically engineered to produce the venom of an Australian funnel-web spider; exposure to the fungus caused populations of anopheles mosquitoes, which spread malaria, to crash by 99% in a controll
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Species of fungus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metarhizium_pinghaense
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2024-01-16T22:16:58Z
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