Genus of beetles
Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles . It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has a symbiotic relationship with many different yeasts , particularly those in the genera Candida and Pichia that aid in digestion and pheromone production.[ 1]
D. micans
Species include:
^ Rivera, Flor N .; González, Evelyn; Gómez, Zulema; Hernández-Rodríguez, Cesar; Berkov, Amy; Zúñiga, Gerardo (2009). "Gut-associated yeast in bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)" (PDF) . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 98 (2): 325–342. doi :10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01289.x . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-22.
^ Sullivan, Brian T.; Grady, Amanda M.; Hofstetter, Richard W.; Pureswaran, Deepa S.; Brownie, Cavell; Cluck, Daniel; Coleman, Tom W.; Graves, Andrew; Willhite, Elizabeth; Spiegel, Lia; Scarbrough, Dwight; Orlemann, Andrew; Zúñiga, Gerardo (January 2021). "Evidence for Semiochemical Divergence Between Sibling Bark Beetle Species: Dendroctonus brevicomis and Dendroctonus barberi" . Journal of Chemical Ecology . 47 (1): 10–27. doi :10.1007/s10886-020-01233-y . ISSN 0098-0331 . PMID 33405044 . S2CID 230783201 – via ProQuest.