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Symbiotic fungi transform terpenes from spruce resin into attractants for bark beetles: When metabolizing spruce bark, the insect's fungal partners release volatile compounds that bark beetles recognize through specialized olfactory sensory neurons - Science Daily
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2/22/23 at 1:35am
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Science Business & Industrial Biological Sciences Home & Garden spruce resin attractants spruce bark spruce bark beetle chemical signals spruce trees Ips typographus
An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their attack on spruce trees. The researchers also show that the i…
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