1 1 2 A Novel in vivo Model of Anaerobic Infection: The Investigation of Clostridium 3 perfringens in Galleria mellonella Larvae. 4 5 Running Title: Galleria mellonella model for Clostridium perfringens 6 7 8 Sammy Kay a,b , Joseph Edwards a,b , Joseph Brown b and Ronald Dixon a# 9 10 a University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom. 11 b Arden Biotechnology, Lincoln, United Kingdom 12 #Correspondence: Dr R A Dixon, School of Life Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, University of 13 Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7DL Tel: 01522 886891 Email: [email protected] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license a certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not this version posted August 1, 2018. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/382077 doi: bioRxiv preprint