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Data characterizing symbiosis between the alder bark beetle and Neonectria bordenii Wertman, Debra; Hamelin, Richard; Carroll, Allan

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Abstract

This dataset describes a symbiosis between the alder bark beetle, Alniphagus aspericollis, and Neonectria bordenii in red alder, Alnus rubra. These data were used to assess tree-killing by the alder bark beetle (i.e., beetle colonization status in relation to red alder condition) and the ability of the alder bark beetle to vector N. bordenii among host red alders (evaluated according to Leach’s postulates). Data were collected from five sites in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Data for assessing the ability of the alder bark beetle to kill trees were collected from 400 m2 fixed-area plots. Data for evaluating, according to Leach’s postulates, the ability of the alder bark beetle to vector (i.e., carry and transmit) Neonectria bordenii were obtained from emergent beetles and infected phloem tissues in the field and laboratory. Neonectria bordenii was detected via culturing from the exoskeletons of beetles and applying a qPCR assay to individual beetle DNA extractions.

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Title	Data characterizing symbiosis between the alder bark beetle and Neonectria bordenii
Creator	Wertman, Debra; Hamelin, Richard; Carroll, Allan
Date Issued	2025-03-27
Description	Abstract This dataset describes a symbiosis between the alder bark beetle, Alniphagus aspericollis, and Neonectria bordenii in red alder, Alnus rubra. These data were used to assess tree-killing by the alder bark beetle (i.e., beetle colonization status in relation to red alder condition) and the ability of the alder bark beetle to vector N. bordenii among host red alders (evaluated according to Leach’s postulates). Data were collected from five sites in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ; Methods Data for assessing the ability of the alder bark beetle to kill trees were collected from 400 m2 fixed-area plots. Data for evaluating, according to Leach’s postulates, the ability of the alder bark beetle to vector (i.e., carry and transmit) Neonectria bordenii were obtained from emergent beetles and infected phloem tissues in the field and laboratory. Neonectria bordenii was detected via culturing from the exoskeletons of beetles and applying a qPCR assay to individual beetle DNA extractions.
Subject	Other; Alniphagus aspericollis; Alnus rubra; bark beetle; fungus; Leach’s postulates; Neonectria; Neonectria bordenii; Scolytinae; symbiont; Symbiosis; symbiote; Insect vectors; qPCR
Type	Dataset
Notes	Dryad version number: 4 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: http://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.hqbzkh1s8</p> Storage size: 42206 Visibility: public
Date Available	2025-03-25
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0448255
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/7TSSN9
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/7TSSN9; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hqbzkh1s8
Grant Funding Agency	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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