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    Here, we compared the invasive capacity between hypervirulent and low-virulence local BdGPL isolates using a cell culture model. The Xenopus laevis kidney epithelial cell line A6 (ATCC-CCL 102) was grown in 75 cm2 cell culture flasks and maintained in complete growth medium (74% NCTC 109 medium, 15% distilled water, 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% of a 10,000 U ml−1 penicillin-streptomycin solution (P/S)) and the cells were incubated at 26 °C and 5% CO2 until they reached confluence. Using trypsin, the cells were detached, washed with 70% Hanks’ Balanced Salt Solution without Ca2+, Mg2+ (HBSS−) by centrifugation for 5 min at 1500 rpm and resuspended in the appropriate cell culture medium for invasion assays, which were performed as described in Verbrugghe et al.61. To assess the germ tube formation, A6 cells were stained with 3 µM CellTrackerTM Green CMFDA, seeded (105 cells per well) in 24-well tissue culture plates containing collagen-coated glass coverslips and they were allowed to attach for 2 h at 20 °C and 5% CO2. After washing three times with 70% HBSS+, they were inoculated with Bd zoospores in invasion medium, at a MOI of 1:10. Two hours p.i., the cells were washed three times with 70% HBSS+ and the invasion medium was replaced by staining medium. Four hours p.i., the infected cells were washed three times with HBSS+ and they were incubated with Calcofluor White stain (1 µg ml−1 in 70% HBSS+) for 10 min. After washing three times with 70% HBSS+, the cells were fixed, mounted and analysed using fluorescence microscopy. To assess the invasive growth, A6 cells were seeded and inoculated with Bd zoospores as described above. Two days p.i., the infected cells were stained with 3 µM CellTrackerTM Green CMFDA, washed three times with 70% HBSS+ and they were incubated with Calcofluor White stain (10 µg ml−1 in 70% HBSS+) for 10 min. After washing three times with HBSS+, the infected cells were fixed, permeabilized for 2 min with 0.1% triton and incubated for 60 min with a polyclonal antibody against Bd (1/1000), which was obtained by immunizing rabbits with Bd-antigen62. After washing three times with 70% HBSS+, the samples were incubated with a goat anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 568 (1/500). After an incubation of 1 h, the samples were washed three times with 70% HBSS+, mounted and analysed using fluorescence microscopy and Leica Application Suite (LAS) software X. The Alexa Fluor 568 targeting Bd and Calcofluor White stainings are used in concert to assess the ability of Bd to penetrate the host cell. Calcofluor White is not internalized by A6 cells, whereas the Alexa Fluor 568 targeting Bd staining was applied after permeabilisation of the host cells. As such, intracellular Bd will only be targeted by the Alexa Fluor 568 and extracellular Bd bodies will be bound with both the Alexa Fluor 568 and Calcofluor White stain. Overlay pictures were made with ImageJ 1.52d software. To assess the in vitro infection dynamics of different BdGPL isolates, three independent in vitro experiments were conducted with every condition being tested in triplicate, with similar results.
    Whole-genome sequence analysis
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