The Relationships between Fungi and Scolytid and Platypodid Beetles.

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  • Masuya Hayato
    Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
  • Yamaoka Yuichi
    Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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  • 「キクイムシとその関連微生物―森林がはぐくんだ見えざる生物多様性―」菌類とキクイムシの関係
  • 菌類とキクイムシの関係
  • キンルイ ト キクイムシ ノ カンケイ

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Abstract

Scolytid and platypodid beetles are associated with fungi, including fungal species that belong to Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Among the beetle-associated fungi, Ophiostomataceae and Ceratocystidiaceae are well studied because of their economic and ecological importance. In particular, the ambrosia fungi, which are mutualistic associates of ambrosia beetles, have been found to be phylogenetically heterogeneous and related to Ophiostomataceae or Ceratocystidiaceae. Several species in both the families are known to be close associates of bark beetles. Ambrosia beetle habits have evolved several times in the phylogeny of Scolytinae and Platypodinae, while their associated ambrosia fungi are thought to have evolved from many phylogenetically unrelated taxa. Consequently, diverse relationships from facultative to obligate mutualism have been developed between the beetles and the fungi.

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