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Diversity of bacteria carried by pinewood nematode in USA and phylogenetic comparison with isolates from other countries.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Proença Diogo Neves, Fonseca Luís, Powers Thomas O, Abrantes Isabel M O, Morais Paula V
Abstract excerpt
Pine wilt disease (PWD) is native to North America and has spread to Asia and Europe. Lately, mutualistic relationship has been suggested between the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus the causal nematode agent of PWD, and bacteria. In countries where PWN occurs, nematodes from diseased trees were reported to carry bacteria from several genera. However no data exists for the United States. The...
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