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Genotype distribution of Raffaelea quercivora in the oak galleries and its composition in the mycangia of Platypus quercivorus
2015-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Raffaelea quercivora is the pathogenic fungus that causes Japanese oak wilt. The female monogynous ambrosia beetle, Platypus quercivorus, carries this fungus in mycangia on the pronotum. These beetles bore galleries in oak trees with their partners to produce offspring, and they deposit fungus on the gallery walls from their mycangia. The offspring mature in the gallery, before loading the fungal pathogen and flyi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1b564ca7-8885-58e3-a675-d40596baf260
- DOI
- 10.1111/efp.12148
