The complex symbiotic relationships of bark beetles with microorganisms: a potential practical approach for biological control in forestry

Different effects of the insectpathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Deuteromycota) on the bark beetle Ips sexdentatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and on its predator Thanasimus formicarius (Coleoptera: Cleridae)

(2016) B. M. Steinwender et al.   Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection

Lessons from Studying Insect Symbioses

(2011) Angela E. Douglas   Cell Host & Microbe

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Do novel genotypes drive the success of an invasive bark beetle–fungus complex? Implications for potential reinvasion

(2011) Min Lu et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant secondary chemistry mediates the performance of a nutritional symbiont associated with a tree-killing herbivore

(2011) Thomas S. Davis et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Spatial Community Structure of Mountain Pine Beetle Fungal Symbionts Across a Latitudinal Gradient

(2011) Amanda D. Roe et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Fungus Symbionts Colonizing the Galleries of the Ambrosia Beetle Platypus quercivorus

(2011) Rikiya Endoh et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Jiri Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Genome and transcriptome analyses of the mountain pine beetle-fungal symbiont Grosmannia clavigera, a lodgepole pine pathogen

(2011) S. DiGuistini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The sudden emergence of pathogenicity in insect-fungus symbioses threatens naive forest ecosystems

(2011) J. Hulcr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anthropogenic effects on interaction outcomes: examples from insect-microbial symbioses in forest and savanna ecosystems

(2011) Diana L. Six et al.   SYMBIOSIS

The Role of Phytopathogenicity in Bark Beetle–Fungus Symbioses: A Challenge to the Classic Paradigm

(2010) Diana L. Six et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Differential antimicrobial activity in response to the entomopathogenic fungus Cordyceps in six Australian bee species

(2010) Adam Stow et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Isolation and virulence of entomopathogenic fungi against the great spruce bark beetle,Dendroctonus micans(Kugelann) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

(2010) Elif Tanyeli et al.   BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Geographic Variation in Bacterial Communities Associated With the Red Turpentine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2010) Aaron S. Adams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Molecular approaches to study the insect gut symbiotic microbiota at the ‘omics’ age

(2010) Weibing Shi et al.   Insect Science

Interactions Between the Yeast Ogataea pini and Filamentous Fungi Associated with the Western Pine Beetle

(2010) Thomas S. Davis et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Comparative phylogeography, genetic differentiation and contrasting reproductive modes in three fungal symbionts of a multipartite bark beetle symbiosis

(2010) AMANDA D. ROE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

(2010) Christina Toft et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Symbiotic streptomycetes in antennal glands of the South American digger wasp genus Trachypus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2010) MARTIN KALTENPOTH et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts in insects: balancing life and death

(2010) Harriet L. Harris et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Mitochondrial phylogenies in the light of pseudogenes and Wolbachia: re-assessment of a bark beetle dataset

(2010) Wolfgang Arthofer et al.   ZooKeys

Ambrosiella beaveri, sp. nov., Associated with an exotic ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus mutilatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), in Mississippi, USA

(2009) Diana L. Six et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Entomopathogenic fungi and insect behaviour: from unsuspecting hosts to targeted vectors

(2009) Jason Baverstock et al.   BIOCONTROL

Fungal entomopathogens in a tritrophic context

(2009) Jenny S. Cory et al.   BIOCONTROL

Challenges in modelling complexity of fungal entomopathogens in semi-natural populations of insects

(2009) H. Hesketh et al.   BIOCONTROL

Screening of entomopathogenic fungi against the European spruce bark beetle,Dendroctonus micans(Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

(2009) Ali Sevim et al.   BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Insect-symbiont systems: From complex relationships to biotechnological applications

(2009) Sandra Chaves et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals

(2009) Aggeliki Saridaki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Fungus Cultivation by Ambrosia Beetles: Behavior and Laboratory Breeding Success in Three Xyleborine Species

(2009) Peter H. W. Biedermann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Symbioses: A Key Driver of Insect Physiological Processes, Ecological Interactions, Evolutionary Diversification, and Impacts on Humans

(2009) K. D. Klepzig et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Life cycle and population dynamics of a protective insect symbiont reveal severe bottlenecks during vertical transmission

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Endosymbiotic Bacteria in Insects: Their Diversity and Culturability

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

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

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

Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Do mites phoretic on elm bark beetles contribute to the transmission of Dutch elm disease?

(2009) John C. Moser et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Mycangimycin, a Polyene Peroxide from a MutualistStreptomycessp.

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Transgenesis and paratransgenesis to control insect-borne diseases: Current status and future challenges

(2009) Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

(2009) S. Haeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Dynamics and Time Scale of Ongoing Genomic Erosion in Symbiotic Bacteria

(2009) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial associations in gut systems of wood- and bark-inhabiting longhorned beetles [Coleoptera: Cerambycidae]

(2009) S. Grünwald et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Biological pest control in beetle agriculture

(2009) Duur K. Aanen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Biology of Dendroctonus murrayanae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Idaho and Montana and Comparative Taxonomic Notes

(2008) Malcolm M. Furniss et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Isolation and characterization of Beauveria spp. associated with exotic bark beetles in New Zealand Pinus radiata plantation forests

(2008) S.D. Reay et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Multipartite Symbioses Among Fungi, Mites, Nematodes, and the Spruce Beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis

(2008) Yasmin J. Cardoza et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Gut Microbiota of an Invasive Subcortical Beetle, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, Across Various Life Stages

(2008) Archana Vasanthakumar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

COEVOLUTION BETWEEN ATTINE ANTS AND ACTINOMYCETE BACTERIA: A REEVALUATION

(2008) Ulrich G. Mueller et al.   EVOLUTION

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

Insects as hosts for mutualistic bacteria

(2008) H FELDHAAR et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Competition and Coexistence In a Multi-partner Mutualism: Interactions Between two Fungal Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle In Beetle-attacked Trees

(2008) K. P. Bleiker et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

In Vitro Interactions Between Yeasts and Bacteria and the Fungal Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)

(2008) Aaron S. Adams et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) K.P. Bleiker et al.  

Beauveria caledonica is a naturally occurring pathogen of forest beetles

(2007) Travis R. Glare et al.