| ambrosiella roeperi sp. nov. is the mycangial symbiont of the granulate ambrosia beetle, xylosandrus crassiusculus. | isolations from the granulate ambrosia beetle, xylosandrus crassiusculus (coleoptera: curculionidae: scolytinae: xyleborini), collected in georgia, south carolina, missouri and ohio, yielded an undescribed species of ambrosiella in thousands of colony-forming units (cfu) per individual female. partial sequences of its and 28s rdna regions distinguished this species from other ambrosiella spp., which are asexual symbionts of ambrosia beetles and closely related to ceratocystis spp. ambrosiella ro ... | 2014 | 24895423 |