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Summary
Małagocka, J., Grell, M.N., Lange, L., Eilenberg, J., Jensen, A.B. 2015. Transcriptome of an entomophthoralean fungus (Pandora formicae) shows molecular machinery adjusted for successful host exploitation and transmission. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 128, 47–56.

Fig. 1. Pandora formicae infection stages in Formica polyctena host. (A) Dead ant before outgrowth of fungal conidiophores, with visible rhizoids (arrow). (B) Sporulating ant cadaver with visible white, dense rings of conidiophores (arrow). (C) Approximate timeline of infection progress in one host. Fungal structures are shown in black. Ants get infected (1) after conidia have attached to and penetrated the cuticle. The fungus later proliferates within host hemocoel (2), until nutrients are depleted and the infected ant is close to death. At that time the behavior of the host is altered so the ant seeks an elevated position on vegetation (3), on which it will die shortly thereafter, with its mandibles now locked on the plant surface, and with fungal rhizoids outgrowing and assisting ﬁxation to vegetation (4). Fungal conidiophores will soon after (depending on humidity and temperature) grow out through soft parts of ant exoskeleton to produce and actively discharge conidia (5).