Fig. 1. Features of ZafA and construction of mutants in Beauveria bassiana. A: Structural features of ZafA sequences; B: Phylogenetic tree of ZafA homologs in filamentous fungi constructed with a neighbor-joining method. The NCBI accession code of each homolog and its sequence identity (%) to the ZafA sequence of B. bassiana (bold) are parenthesized following each fungal name; C: Schematic diagram for zafA deletion; D: The mutants of zafA identified respectively via PCR (lanes 1-3) and Southern blotting (lanes 4-6). Lanes 1 and 4: Wild-type; Lanes 2 and 5: ΔzafA; Lanes 3 and 6: ΔzafA/zafA.