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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE BOTANIQUE
Volume 81, Issue 4, Pages 316-329Publisher
NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA
DOI: 10.1139/B03-025
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Ophiostoma tetropii; Tetropium fuscum; molecular phylogeny; invasive species
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In 1999, red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) trees in a small area of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, were found to be infested and killed by Tetropium fuscum (Fabr.) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle. We isolated and identified the fungi associated with T. fuscum in Halifax and compared them with ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Tetropium spp. on spruce in Europe. Ophiostoma species associated with Tetropium cinnamopterum Kirby (indigenous to and transcontinental in Canada) were also compared with those associated with T. fuscum. Strains were identified based on morphological and molecular characters. Ophiostoma piceae (Munch) Syd. & P. Syd., Pesotum fragrans Mathiesen-Kaarik, and Ophiostoma tetropii Mathiesen were the most frequently isolated species. Lack of type material for O. tetropii and discrepancies between the ex-type strain of O. tetropii and its original description prompted us to lectotypify this species and designate epitype material for it. The results suggest that O. tetropii was introduced with T. fuscum from Europe into Atlantic Canada.
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