Bacteria influence mountain pine beetle brood development through interactions with symbiotic and antagonistic fungi: implications for climate-driven host range expansion

Influence of bark beetle outbreaks on nutrient cycling in native pine stands in western Canada

(2015) Paul W. Cigan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Variations in foliar monoterpenes across the range of jack pine reveal three widespread chemotypes: implications to host expansion of invasive mountain pine beetle

(2015) Spencer Taft et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Rapid Increases in Forest Understory Diversity and Productivity following a Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Outbreak in Pine Forests

(2015) Gregory J. Pec et al.   PLoS One

Aspen Defense Chemicals Influence Midgut Bacterial Community Composition of Gypsy Moth

(2014) Charles J. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Plant-associated bacteria degrade defense chemicals and reduce their adverse effects on an insect defoliator

(2014) Charles J. Mason et al.   OECOLOGIA

Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite

(2014) Michael Poulsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrological effects of forest transpiration loss in bark beetle-impacted watersheds

(2014) Lindsay A. Bearup et al.   Nature Climate Change

Comparison of lodgepole and jack pine resin chemistry: implications for range expansion by the mountain pine beetle,Dendroctonus ponderosae(Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2014) Erin L. Clark et al.   PeerJ

The Role of Mites in Insect-Fungus Associations

(2013) R.W. Hofstetter et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mountain Pine Beetles Colonizing Historical and Naïve Host Trees Are Associated with a Bacterial Community Highly Enriched in Genes Contributing to Terpene Metabolism

(2013) Aaron S. Adams et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Decline of ectomycorrhizal fungi following a mountain pine beetle epidemic

(2013) Roland Treu et al.   ECOLOGY

Bacteria Associated with a Tree-Killing Insect Reduce Concentrations of Plant Defense Compounds

(2013) Celia K. Boone et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

The role of temperature variability in stabilizing the mountain pine beetle–fungus mutualism

(2013) A.L. Addison et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Nitrogen-Fixing and Uricolytic Bacteria Associated with the Gut of Dendroctonus rhizophagus and Dendroctonus valens (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2013) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Chemical similarity between historical and novel host plants promotes range and host expansion of the mountain pine beetle in a naïve host ecosystem

(2013) Nadir Erbilgin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Herbivore exploits orally secreted bacteria to suppress plant defenses

(2013) S. H. Chung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecohydrology of an outbreak: mountain pine beetle impacts trees in drier landscape positions first

(2012) Kendra E. Kaiser et al.   Ecohydrology

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Impact of Phloem Nutrients on Overwintering Mountain Pine Beetles and Their Fungal Symbionts

(2012) Devin W. Goodsman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Microbial Symbionts Shape the Sterol Profile of the Xylem-Feeding Woodwasp, Sirex noctilio

(2012) Brian M. Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Gut-Associated Bacteria Throughout the Life Cycle of the Bark Beetle Dendroctonus rhizophagus Thomas and Bright (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and Their Cellulolytic Activities

(2012) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Manipulation of Plant Defense Responses by the Tomato Psyllid (Bactericerca cockerelli) and Its Associated Endosymbiont Candidatus Liberibacter Psyllaurous

(2012) Clare L. Casteel et al.   PLoS One

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potential for range expansion of mountain pine beetle into the boreal forest of North America

(2011) L. Safranyik et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Tree-mediated interactions between the jack pine budworm and a mountain pine beetle fungal associate

(2011) LINDSAY J. COLGAN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Responses of Bark Beetle-Associated Bacteria to Host Monoterpenes and Their Relationship to Insect Life Histories

(2011) Aaron S. Adams et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Presence and Diversity of Streptomyces in Dendroctonus and Sympatric Bark Beetle Galleries Across North America

(2011) Jiri Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Gene genealogies reveal cryptic species and host preferences for the pine fungal pathogen Grosmannia clavigera

(2011) SEPIDEH M. ALAMOUTI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeographic structure of jack pine (Pinus banksiana ; Pinaceae) supports the existence of a coastal glacial refugium in northeastern North America

(2010) Julie Godbout et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Pheromone production in bark beetles

(2010) Gary J. Blomquist et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Climate change and range expansion of an aggressive bark beetle: evidence of higher beetle reproduction in naïve host tree populations

(2010) Timothy J. Cudmore et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of symbiotic bacteria and tree chemistry on the growth and reproduction of bark beetle fungal symbionts

(2009) A.S. Adams et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Survey and phylogenetic analysis of culturable microbes in the oral secretions of three bark beetle species

(2009) Yasmin J. Cardoza et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Bacterial Community and Nitrogen Fixation in the Red Turpentine Beetle, Dendroctonus valens LeConte (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2009) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Symbiotic bacteria enable insect to use a nutritionally inadequate diet

(2009) E Akman Gunduz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE