| degradation capacities of bacteria and yeasts isolated from the gut of dendroctonus rhizophagus (curculionidae: scolytinae). | bark beetles (curculionidae: scolytinae) feed on the xylem and phloem of their host, which are composed of structural carbohydrates and organic compounds that are not easily degraded by the insects. some of these compounds might be hydrolyzed by digestive enzymes produced by microbes present in the gut of these insects. in this study, we evaluated the enzymatic capacity of bacteria (acinetobacter lwoffii, arthrobacter sp., pseudomonas putida, pseudomonas azotoformans, and rahnella sp.) and yeast ... | 2017 | 27544667 |
| three new ascomycetous yeasts from insect-associated arboreal habitats. | a new species of pichia and two new species of candida are described and were determined to be genetically isolated from all other currently recognized ascomycetous yeasts from their sequence divergence in the species-variable d1/d2 domain of large subunit (26s) ribosomal dna. the three species were primarily isolated from the frass of wood-boring insects living in pine and spruce trees. the new species and their type strains are the following: pichia ramenticola nrrl yb-1985 (cbs 8699), mating ... | 2000 | 10696471 |
| yeast diversity associated with invasive dendroctonus valens killing pinus tabuliformis in china using culturing and molecular methods. | bark beetle-associated yeasts are much less studied than filamentous fungi, yet they are also considered to play important roles in beetle nutrition, detoxification, and chemical communication. the red turpentine beetle, dendroctonus valens, an invasive bark beetle introduced from north america, became one of the most destructive pests in china, having killed more than 10 million pinus tabuliformis as well as other pine species. no investigation of yeasts associated with this bark beetle in its ... | 2014 | 24691849 |