Performance of two ips bark beetles and their associated pathogenic fungi on hosts reflects a species-specific association in the beetle-fungus complex

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Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) are widespread in nature and more or less associated with relatively pathogenic fungi that promote successful colonization and development of the bark beetle on host_plants (Six and Wingfield, 2011; Cale et_al, 2017; Zhao et_al, 2019). The use of artificial fungal inoculations provides evidence that pathogenic fungi are capable of killing mature trees (Solheim and Safranyik, 1997; Yamaoka et_al, 1998, 2000; Kim et_al, 2008), while in some cases bark beetles can successfully colonize trees in the absence of pathogenic fungi (Hetrick, 1949; Bridges et_al, 1985; Jankowiak, 2005). It has been . . .

 



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