Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pine bark beetles and infested pines in south-eastern Australia, including Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov.

Abstract The ophiostomatoid fungi are an assemblage of ascomycetes which are arguably best-known for their associations with bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculonidae) and blue stain (sap pet calming peanut butter stain) of many economically important tree species.These fungi are considered a significant threat to coniferous forests, which has result

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WAMI: a web server for the analysis of minisatellite maps

Abstract Background Minisatellites are genomic loci composed of tandem arrays of short repetitive DNA segments.A minisatellite map is a sequence of symbols that represents the tandem repeat array such that the set of symbols is in one-to-one correspondence with the set of distinct repeats.Due to variations in repeat type and organization as well as

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