About the Authors
- Sampurna Sattar
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* E-mail: sus56@psu.edu (SS); gat10@psu.edu (GAT)
Affiliation College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Charles Addo-Quaye
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Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Addo-Quaye, Yan Song
Affiliation The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Yan Song
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Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Addo-Quaye, Yan Song
Affiliations Bioinformatics Core Facility, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America
- James A. Anstead
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Affiliation College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ramanjulu Sunkar
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Core Facility, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Gary A. Thompson
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* E-mail: sus56@psu.edu (SS); gat10@psu.edu (GAT)
Affiliation College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS CAQ JAA RS GAT. Analyzed the data: SS CAQ YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAT RS CAQ YS. Wrote the paper: SS CAQ GAT. Performed infestation experiments, sRNA library construction, in vitro feeding assay, qPCR: SS. Performed bioinformatic analyses: CAQ YS. Critically reviewed the paper: GAT RS. Designed the experiments: SS GAT CAQ RS JAA.