The effects of temperature on fungal symbionts in the mountain pine beetle-fungus multi-partite symbiosis
The mountain pine beetle is an economically and ecologically important insect in western North American forests capable of killing millions of trees during outbreaks. This beetle depends on two fungi, Grosmannia clavigera and Ophiostoma montium, to provide the nutrients required for the beetle to de...
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The University of Montana
2013
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06212013-224914/ |