Figure 9. Fungal development in insect hemocoel. Relative to the WT and Comp, Mratg8Δ conidia were heavily encapsulated and melanized by insect hemocytes 16 h after injection. Arrows indicate the escaped hyphal tubes. Twenty-four hours postinjection, mycelia of the WT and Comp branched and escaped from the hemocyte nodules but not in the gene-deletion mutant. Scale bar: 10 µm.