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Multilocus genotyping of Amylostereum spp. associated with Sirex noctilio and other woodwasps from Europe reveal clonal lineage introduced to the US.
Fungal biology - 1 Jul 2015
Castrillo Louela A, Hajek Ann E, Pajares Juan A, Thomsen Iben M, Csóka György, Kenaley Shawn C, Kepler Ryan M, Zamora Paula, Angeli Sergio
Abstract excerpt
Sirex noctilio is a woodwasp of Eurasian origin that was inadvertently introduced to the southern hemisphere in the 1900s and to North America over a decade ago. Its larvae bore in Pinus spp. and can cause significant mortality in pine plantations. S noctilio is associated with a symbiotic white rot fungus, Amylostereum areolatum, which females inject into trees when they oviposit and which is required for...
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