What is Next in Bark Beetle Phylogeography?

• Published in: Aquatic insects Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 453 - 472
• Main Authors: Avtzis, Dimitrios N., Bertheau, Coralie, Stauffer, Christian
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 07.05.2012; Taylor & Francis; MDPI
• Subjects: Animal biology; Bark; bark beetles; Biodiversity; Coniferous forests; Coniferous trees; Deciduous trees; Dendroctonus; Epidemiology; glacial refugia; host selection; Insect migration; Invertebrate Zoology; Ips; Life history; Life Sciences; next generation sequencing; phylogeography; Pityogenes; Populations and Evolution; Review; Scolytinae; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Tomicus; glacial refugia; Dendroctonus; next generation sequencing; Pityogenes; Scolytinae; host selection; Tomicus; Ips; bark beetles; phylogeography

Bark beetle species within the scolytid genera Dendroctonus, Ips, Pityogenes and Tomicus are known to cause extensive ecological and economical damage in spruce and pine forests during epidemic outbreaks all around the world. Dendroctonus ponderosae poses the most recent example having destroyed alm...