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Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2011
Cullingham Catherine I, Cooke Janice E K, Dang Sophie, Davis Corey S, Cooke Barry J, Coltman David W
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The current epidemic of the mountain pine beetle (MPB), an indigenous pest of western North American pine, has resulted in significant losses of lodgepole pine. The leading edge has reached Alberta where forest composition shifts from lodgepole to jack pine through a hybrid zone. The susceptibility of jack pine to MPB is a major concern, but there has been no evidence of host-range expansion, in part due to the...
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