Infection of Ophiocordyceps sinensis Fungus Causes Dramatic Changes in the Microbiota of Its Thitarodes Host

The Chinese cordyceps is a unique and valuable parasitic complex of Thitarodes/Hepialus ghost moths and the Ophiocordyceps sinensis fungus for medicine and health foods from the Tibetan Plateau. During artificial cultivation of Chinese cordyceps, the induction of blastospores into hyphae is a prereq...

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Main Authors: Hua Wu, Zhong-Chen Rao, Li Cao, Patrick De Clercq, Ri-Chou Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
gut
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.577268/full