Figure 6.
Galleria mellonella larvae infected with the Δbcs1A-strain survive significantly longer. G. mellonella larvae were inoculated in groups of ten with 5 x 105 conidia of the indicated strains, each resuspended in 10 µL of deionized water. The control groups were either inoculated with 10 µL of deionized water or left untreated. Larvae were maintained at 37 °C in the dark. Viability of the larvae was evaluated every 8 h for a total period of 128 h. The Kaplan–Meier graph shows the cumulative survival of all 50 larvae of each group. p-values: Δbcs1A vs. wt: <0.001, Δbcs1B vs. wt: 0.087; Δbcs1C vs. wt: 0.226.