Toll receptor ligand Spätzle 4 responses to the highly pathogenic Enterococcus faecalis from Varroa mites in honeybees.

"plos publication stage vor-update-to-uncorrected-proof publication update 2024-01-09 data availability the genome assembly of e faecalis strain zzj01 was deposited in the ncbi database under genbank accession numbers jaukog000000000.; data availability the genome assembly of e faecalis strain zzj01 was deposited in the ncbi database under genbank accession numbers jaukog000000000.; the primers were designed based on the nucleotide sequences available in genbank: spaetzle 4 ( spz4 ) (xm_028668966 1): forward 5?-caacgaattcagggacgagg-3? reverse 5?-agtagtgccggggaaattca-3? data availability the genome assembly of e faecalis strain zzj01 was deposited in the ncbi database under genbank accession numbers jaukog000000000"

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"This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project 32300385 and the Science Foundation of Hebei Normal University (L2023B21) to Z.Z., and by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFA0906500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project 32170495 to H.Z. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."