Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes

• Dineshkumar Kandasamy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dineshkumar.kandasamy@biol.lu.se (DK); gershenzon@ice.mpg.de (JG)

  Current address: Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Center for next Generation Insect Chemical Ecology (nGICE), Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Rashaduz Zaman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Yoko Nakamura,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, Research Group Biosynthesis/NMR, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Tao Zhao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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• Henrik Hartmann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Martin N. Andersson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Center for next Generation Insect Chemical Ecology (nGICE), Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Almuth Hammerbacher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology and Entomology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jonathan Gershenzon

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dineshkumar.kandasamy@biol.lu.se (DK); gershenzon@ice.mpg.de (JG)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-1551

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