An entomopathogenic fungus in the Beauveria bassiana complex detected from an overwintered queen of the Asian giant hornet Vespa mandarinia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

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We found that the gyne of the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) died from a fungal infection. An entomopathogenic fungus was isolated from the gyne, which was most likely a species of Beauveria, based on morphological observations. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out to confirm the taxonomic position of the fungus. This dataset is a concatenated alignment of four genomic DNA regions (TEF, PBR1, PBR2 and Bloc) from selected Beauveria fungi, including the fungus that we isolated.

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The sequences of each genomic DNA region were aligned using MUSCLE 5 with the default settings. The alignments were then concatenated after ambiguously aligned regions were trimmed using TrimAL v1.2 with the automated1 option.

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