Effects of water potential and solute on the growth and interactions of two fungal symbionts of the mountain pine beetle

Mycological Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-15

  Bleiker, K P ^a   Six, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue stain fungi; Coexistence; Competition; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Grosmannia clavigera; Insect fungal interactions; Interspecific interactions; Mountain pine beetle; Ophiostoma montium

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; WATER;

AGAR; BEETLE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FUNGUS; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PARASITOLOGY; PINE; SYMBIOSIS; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; LARVA; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PINUS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SYMBIOSIS; WATER; WEEVILS;

CLAVIGERA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; OPHIOSTOMA MONTIUM; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 57649200454     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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