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Genetic structure of the oak wilt vector beetle Platypus quercivorus: inferences toward the process of damaged area expansion.
BMC ecology - 15 Oct 2010
Shoda-Kagaya Etsuko, Saito Shoichi, Okada Mitsuhiro, Nozaki Ai, Nunokawa Kouichi, Tsuda Yoshiaki
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BACKGROUND: The ambrosia beetle, Platypus quercivorus, is the vector of oak wilt, one of the most serious forest diseases in Japan. Population genetics approaches have made great progress toward studying the population dynamics of pests, especially for estimating dispersal. Knowledge of the genetic structuring of the beetle populations should reveal their population history. Using five highly polymorphic...
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