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Metagenomic and metaproteomic insights into bacterial communities in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens

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The Metagenome of an Anaerobic Microbial Community Decomposing Poplar Wood Chips

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Climate change could alter the distribution of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada

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Effect of Water Stress and Fungal Inoculation on Monoterpene Emission from an Historical and a New Pine Host of the Mountain Pine Beetle

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

(2011) Jiri Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest

(2011) CATHERINE I. CULLINGHAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evidence of cellulose metabolism by the giant panda gut microbiome

(2011) L. Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenomic Discovery of Biomass-Degrading Genes and Genomes from Cow Rumen

(2011) M. Hess et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Differences in the constitutive terpene profile of lodgepole pine across a geographical range in British Columbia, and correlation with historical attack by mountain pine beetle

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

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

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

Targeted Discovery of Glycoside Hydrolases from a Switchgrass-Adapted Compost Community

(2010) Martin Allgaier et al.   PLoS One

Adaptation to herbivory by the Tammar wallaby includes bacterial and glycoside hydrolase profiles different from other herbivores

(2010) P. B. Pope et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation

(2009) Victor M. Markowitz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

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

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

Phymm and PhymmBL: metagenomic phylogenetic classification with interpolated Markov models

(2009) Arthur Brady et al.   NATURE METHODS

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

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