Characterization of bacterial communities associated with the pine sawyer beetle Monochamus galloprovincialis, the insect vector of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Pine wilt disease (PWD) has a tremendous impact on worldwide forestlands, both from the environmental and economical viewpoints. Monochamus sp., a xylophagous insect from the Cerambycidae family, plays an important role in dissemination of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the prima...

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Main Author: Vicente, Cláudia (author)
Other Authors: Nascimento, Francisco X. (author), Espada, Margarida (author), Barbosa, Pedro (author), Hasegawa, Koichi (author), Mota, Manuel (author), Oliveira, Solange (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/9148
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/9148