Ips pini (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is a vector of the fungal pathogen, Sphaeropsis sapinea (Coelomycetes), to Austrian Pines, Pinus nigra (Pinaceae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 114-120

  Whitehill, Justin G A ^a,b   Lehman, Jeffrey S ^a   Bonello, Pierluigi ^b  

^a OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canker; Diplodia tip blight; Phoresy rates; Pine engraver beetle; Short and long range dispersal

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DISEASE CARRIER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT DISEASE; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; INSECT VECTORS; PINUS; PLANT DISEASES; WEEVILS;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COELOMYCETES; COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CURCULIONIDAE; DIPLODIA; HEXAPODA; IPS PINI; PINACEAE; PINUS NIGRA; SCOLYTINAE; SPHAEROPSIS SAPINEA;

EID: 34047151693     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[114:IPCSIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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