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Diversity and Evolution of Entomocorticium (Russulales, Peniophoraceae), a Genus of Bark Beetle Mutualists Derived from Free-Living, Wood Rotting Peniophora. [PDF]

J Fungi (Basel), 2021
Symbiosis between insects and fungi arose multiple times during the evolution of both groups, and some of the most biologically diverse and economically important are mutualisms in which the insects cultivate and feed on fungi.
Araújo JPM, Li Y, Six D, Rajchenberg M, Smith ME, Johnson AJ, Klepzig KD, Crous PW, Leal-Dutra CA, Skelton J, Adams SN, Hulcr J.   +11 more
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Carrying the seeds of your crop: fungal genetic networks activated during colonization of the ambrosia beetle symbiotic organ. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background Myco-cultivation by ambrosia beetles involves unique symbiotic partnerships with select fungi. These beetles grow and tend their fungal gardens as food for larvae and adults.
Joseph RA, Bansal K, Keyhani NO.
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The ambrosial mycobiota of <i>Treptoplatypus oxyurus</i> (<i>Coleoptera</i>, <i>Platypodidae</i>): a unique island of fungal diversity revealing <i>Wilhelmdebeerea oxyuri</i> gen. et sp. nov. (<i>Ophiostomatales</i>), and two new yeast species <i>Blastobotrys sasensis</i> sp. nov., and <i>Sugiyamaella casensis</i> sp. nov. (<i>Dipodascales</i>). [PDF]

IMA Fungus
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) form obligate nutritional symbioses with ambrosia fungi cultivated within their galleries. Among them, the pinhole borers (Platypodinae) are predominantly tropical, with only two representatives native to ...
Kolařík M, Vadkertiová R, Knížek M, Sklenář F, Vakula J, Zúbrik M, Kolář M, Hulcr J.   +7 more
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Insights on the symbiotic associations of the tea shot hole borer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). [PDF]

Front Microbiol
IntroductionThe tea shot hole borer (TSHB), Euwallacea perbrevis (Schedl 1951) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is an invasive ambrosia beetle that carries multiple symbiotic fungi and vectors Fusarium spp. to avocado (Persea americana Mill.).
Cruz LF, Menocal O, Dunlap C, Cooperband MF, Cloonan KR, Tabanca N, Carrillo D.   +6 more
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Diverse Heat Tolerance of the Yeast Symbionts of Platycerus Stag Beetles in Japan. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 2021
The genus Platycerus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) is a small stag beetle group, which is adapted to cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests in East Asia.
Zhu XJ, Zhang SN, Watanabe K, Kawakami K, Kubota N, Takagi E, Tanahashi M, Wen XJ, Kubota K.   +8 more
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Fidelity or love the one you're with? Biotic complexity and tradeoffs can drive strategy and specificity in beetle-fungus by-product mutualisms. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2023
In by‐product mutualisms, benefits arise as a part of normal life processes that do not incur additional costs. They are not conditional where outcomes shift between mutualism and antagonism as environmental context varies. Most models are conditional and a poor fit for by‐product mutualisms. Here, we build on a prior model, removing conditionality and
Six DL, Biedermann PHW.
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From beginning to end: the synecology of tree-killing bark beetles, fungi, and trees. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT Over a century of research has revealed an amazing complexity of behaviours and physiological adaptations that allow tiny bark beetles to overcome large trees, sometimes resulting in outbreaks that kill millions of trees. Turning a tree into a home and successfully raising offspring involves constant interactions among the beetles, the tree ...
Six DL, Hammerbacher A, Trowbridge A, Bullington L.   +3 more
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A Century of Invasion: How Biosecurity Influenced Populations of Sirex noctilio and Its Fungal Symbiont in Australasia. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
ABSTRACT The woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, and its mutualistic fungal symbiont, Amylostereum areolatum, are native to Eurasia and northern Africa. Sirex noctilio was first reported outside its native range in New Zealand in 1900, Tasmania in 1952 and mainland Australia in 1961.
Eshetu FB, Barnes I, Nahrung HF, Fitza KNE, Slippers B.   +4 more
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Fungal Flora in Adult Females of the Rearing Population of Ambrosia Beetle Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae): Does It Differ from the Wild Population?

Diversity, 2022
Ambrosia beetles bore into host trees, and live with fungi symbiotically that serve as a food source. However, it is challenging to directly observe these beetles in the wild.
Zi-Ru Jiang, Hayato Masuya, Hisashi Kajimura   +2 more
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Plasticity of mycangia in Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles [PDF]

Insect Science, 2018
AbstractInsects that depend on microbial mutualists evolved a variety of organs to transport the microsymbionts while dispersing. The ontogeny and variability of such organs is rarely studied, and the microsymbiont's effects on the animal tissue development remain unknown in most cases.
You Li, Yong‐Ying Ruan, Edward L. Stanley, James Skelton, Jiri Hulcr   +4 more
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