New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles

• Li You ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li You, David Rabern Simmons

  Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• David Rabern Simmons ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li You, David Rabern Simmons

  Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Craig C. Bateman,

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Dylan P. G. Short,

  Affiliation Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Matthew T. Kasson,

  Affiliation Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Robert J. Rabaglia,

  Affiliation Forest Health Protection, State & Private Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Jiri Hulcr

  * E-mail: hulcr@ufl.edu

  Affiliations School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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