This chapter summarizes the historical and contemporary taxonomy, phylogenetic
relationships, morphological and molecular approaches, and information resources used in …

Bark beetle outbreaks have a devastating effect on economically important forests
worldwide, thus requiring extensive application of management control strategies. The …

Bark beetle species within the scolytid genera Dendroctonus, Ips, Pityogenes and Tomicus
are known to cause extensive ecological and economical damage in spruce and pine …

The Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly 1,500 km long across
Central and Eastern Europe. They are an important area for biodiversity and belong to one …

Species in northern Europe re‐colonized the region after the last glacial maximum via
several routes, which could have lingering signatures in current intraspecific trait variation …

We used 454 pyrosequencing to discover more than 3000 candidate microsatellite markers
for three putative species of tadpole shrimp in the genus Triops. We selected 42 of these …

We used 454 pyro-sequencing to establish microsatellite markers for the endangered Kagu
(Rhynochetos jubatus), a bird endemic to New Caledonia. We screened 52,583 reads to …

Many studies have addressed the question of dispersal potential of Ips typographus,
however the approach of molecular ecology have been used only in a few of them …

The Asian long-horned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky)(Coleoptera:
Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), is a wood-borer and polyphagous xylophage that is native to …

The species Ips typographus is an important element of natural forest ecosystems. By
creating dead wood and forest gaps it facilitates fungal, insect and plant diversity. On the …