Convergent evolution of semiochemicals across Kingdoms: bark beetles and their fungal symbionts

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 13; no. 6; pp. 1535 - 1545
• Main Authors: Zhao, Tao, Ganji, Suresh, Schiebe, Christian, Bohman, Björn, Weinstein, Philip, Krokene, Paal, Borg-Karlson, Anna-Karin, Unelius, C. Rikard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 101/58; 631/158/2454; 631/326/193/2539; 631/45/320; Animals; Bark; Beetles; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Blue stain; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic - metabolism; Child custody; Coleoptera; Coleoptera - growth & development; Coleoptera - microbiology; Coleoptera - physiology; Coniferous forests; Convergence; Disruption; Ecological chemistry; Ecology; Ekologisk kemi; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Fungi; Fungi - classification; Fungi - genetics; Fungi - isolation & purification; Fungi - physiology; Gas chromatography; Glucose; Life Sciences; Malt; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Pest control; Pheromones; Pheromones - chemistry; Pheromones - metabolism; Picea - microbiology; Picea - parasitology; Pine trees; Plant Bark - microbiology; Plant Bark - parasitology; Plantations; Semiochemicals; Symbionts; Symbiosis; Trees - microbiology; Trees - parasitology

Convergent evolution of semiochemical use in organisms from different Kingdoms is a rarely described phenomenon. Tree-killing bark beetles vector numerous symbiotic blue-stain fungi that help the beetles colonize healthy trees. Here we show for the first time that some of these fungi are able to bio...