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Bark beetle-associated bacteria from the sub-boreal and boreal forests of northern Canada represent a largely unexplored source of bioactive natural products. This study aims to investigate the chemical potential of bacteria isolated from Dendroctonu...

Symbiosis between microbes and insects has been raised as a promising area for understanding biological implications of microbe–host interactions. Among them, the association between fungi and bark beetles has been generally recognized as essential f...

Fungi and bacteria associated with bark beetles can facilitate successful tree colonization, and, in some cases, these fungi act as pathogens of trees. The red turpentine beetle (RTB, Dendroctonus valens) is a bark beetle native to North America that...

Hylurgus ligniperda (Fabricius) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is a new invasive pest beetle in China, which colonized the Shandong province, causing devastating damage. Originating in Europe, it has spread to Oceania, Asia, North and South America. Bac...

Emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is a quarantine pest posing a threat to ash trees all over Europe. This wood-boring beetle native to Asia is quickly spreading in North America and European Russia, and approaching the E...

Wolbachia symbionts are maternally inherited bacteria that are widely distributed among Arthropoda hosts. Wolbachia influence their host biology in diverse ways. They may induce reproductive abnormalities, protect hosts against pathogens and parasite...

Gap dynamics are driving many important processes in the development of temperate forest ecosystems. What remains largely unknown is how often the regeneration processes initialized by endogenous mortality of dominant and co-dominant canopy trees tak...