The role of phytopathogenicity in bark beetle-fungus symbioses: A challenge to the classic paradigm

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 255-272

  Six, Diana L ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dendroctonus; Ips; mutualism; ophiostomatoid fungi; Scolytinae; tree defenses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FUNGI; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; FUNGI; IPS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 78650879897     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144839     Document Type: Article

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