1) Access to high-quality food is a main driver of population dynamics. For herbivores protein and carbohydrates are key nutrients that are notoriously variable in plants and are affected by land use.
Dendroctonus valens LeConte, an invasive bark beetle, has caused severe damage in pine forests and has the potential to disperse into new geographic ranges in China. Although the gut microbiota of D.
Metagenomic characterization of the 4 gut regions (FG, MG, AHG, PHG) of the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus. The four gut regions of 4 beetles were paired-end sequenced using the Illumina pla