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SUBMITTER: Cullingham CI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3116149 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cullingham Catherine I CI Cooke Janice E K JE Dang Sophie S Davis Corey S CS Cooke Barry J BJ Coltman David W DW
Molecular ecology 20110404 10
The current epidemic of the mountain pine beetle (MPB), an indigenous pest of western North American pine, has resulted in significant losses of lodgepole pine. The leading edge has reached Alberta where forest composition shifts from lodgepole to jack pine through a hybrid zone. The susceptibility of jack pine to MPB is a major concern, but there has been no evidence of host-range expansion, in part due to the difficulty in distinguishing the parentals and their hybrids. We tested the utility o ...[more]