Mountain Pine Beetles Use Volatile Cues to Locate Host Limber Pine and Avoid Non-Host Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

Curtis A. Gray; Justin B. Runyon; Michael J. Jenkins; Andrew D. Giunta

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135752

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Mountain Pine Beetles Use Volatile Cues to Locate Host Limber Pine and Avoid Non-Host Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

Curtis A. Gray ,

* E-mail: curtis.gray@aggiemail.usu.edu

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America
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Justin B. Runyon,

Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
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Michael J. Jenkins,

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America
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Andrew D. Giunta

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America
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Mountain Pine Beetles Use Volatile Cues to Locate Host Limber Pine and Avoid Non-Host Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

Curtis A. Gray,
Justin B. Runyon,
Michael J. Jenkins,
Andrew D. Giunta

Published: September 2, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135752

About the Authors

Curtis A. Gray

* E-mail: curtis.gray@aggiemail.usu.edu

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America

Justin B. Runyon

Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Michael J. Jenkins

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America

Andrew D. Giunta

Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG JR MJ. Performed the experiments: CG JR AG. Analyzed the data: CG JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR MJ. Wrote the paper: CG JR.

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