Fungus cultivation by ambrosia beetles : Behavior and laboratory breeding success in three xyleborine species

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1096-1105

  Biedermann, Peter H W ^a,b   Klepzig, Kier D ^b   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Southern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial medium; Biological invasions; Cooperative breeding; Insect agriculture; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; CROP PEST; FUNGUS; INBREEDING; LABORATORY METHOD; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BREEDING; FEMALE; FUNGI; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ABIES; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; PLATYPODINI; SCOLYTINAE; XYLEBORINUS; XYLEBORUS; XYLOSANDRUS;

EID: 69849087511     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0417     Document Type: Article

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