Responses of five species of coniferophagous bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to angiosperm bark volatiles

<p>Ph.D. thesis by Dezene Huber entitled:</p> <p><em>Responses of five species of coniferophagous bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to angiosperm bark volatiles</em></p> <p>Defended April 2001, Simon Fraser University, Department of Biological Sciences.</p> <p>Senior supervisor: Dr. John H. Borden</p

Canadian postsecondary faculty salary comparison data.xls

<p>Data for a comparison of salaries for assistant, associate, and full professors at various universities across Canada and within British Columbia. Most of the universities listed fall within the "primarily undergradate" classification used by McLean's magazine.</p> <p>Data were obtained from the CAUT: http://www.caut.ca/uploads/2012_2_Staff.pdf</p

An assessment of the diversity of ground-dwelling invertebrates in three urban land-use types in central British Columbia

Ground dwelling arthropods and other sympatric invertebrates in urban environments often exist completely unnoticed yet are known to provide important ecosystem services1,2,3. The central interior of British Columbia is largely unsurveyed for many taxa, and its urban centers have been particularly ignored. Prince George (population ~75000) is the main industrial and service hub for much of the interior of British Columbia north of Kamloops. Due to rapid industrialization of the central and northern interior of British Columbia, Prince George is also experiencing substantial growth in economic activity and population. Development decisions in this context should be based on sound ecological data, yet little to no urban arthropod biodiversity data exist for the region. We monitored arrays of pitfall traps in three land-use types (residential, greenbelt, industrial; N = 4 for each) on a near-weekly basis during the summer of 2015 in Prince George, British Columbia. Initial sorting and morphospecies-based DNA barcoding has revealed over 180 species as a conservative estimate for γ-diversity. Several groups – such as <i>Megaselia</i> spp. flies (Phoridae), platygastrid wasps, and spiders – show substantial levels of diversity. We are currently working on completing a pictorial catalog of the local fauna to aid in our ongoing sorting and detailed assessment of assemblages found at each land-use type

A video of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) swimming

<p>A short video of a forest tent caterpillar, <em>Malacosoma disstria</em> (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), larva swimming.</p

Data for: "Single-generation effects on terpenoid defenses in lodgepole pine populations following mountain pine beetle infestation"

<p> The recent mountain pine beetle outbreak in western Canada provides an opportunity to study the selection and heritability of tree defenses. We examined terpenoid-based defenses of seedling lodgepole pines which were offspring of mature trees subjected to high levels of mountain pine beetle selective pressure. Seedlings were grown from one of three types of cones: old cones on live trees; young cones on live trees; and cones on trees killed by beetles. Offspring thus represented crosses of non-surviving (NS) x surviving (S), S x S, and NS x NS parents, respectively. Methyl jasmonate was used to induce a defensive reaction in the seedlings. Seed source had a significant effect on levels of ten different terpenes, but not on total terpene concentrations. When the seedlings were grouped by location and treatment type, the seedlings of different cone types could be almost entirely distinguished by terpene profiles.</p

The effect of feeding and mate presence on the pheromone production of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) - Dataset

<div>Amounts (ug/beetle) of known pheromone components produced by male and female spruce beetles (<i>Dendroctonus rufipennis</i>), either alone or paired with the opposite sex, and fed for 0, 24, or 48 hours in recently cut white spruce feeding bolts. The beetles were collected as emerging adults from infested spruce harvested in Nova Scotia.</div><div><br></div><div>Pheromone extractions were performed by hindgut dissections into 4:1 pentane:hexane spiked with 5 ng/ul of heptyl acetate (internal standard), and were later quantified by GC-MS.<br></div

Mountain pine beetle host colonization transcriptomics

<p>Contains two XLXS files of transcriptomic data entitled:</p> <p>"Quantitative differences in gene transcript levels between <em>Dendroctonus ponderosae</em> starved females and those that have been fed in lodgepole pine for 24 hours"</p> <p>and</p> <p>"Quantitative differences in gene transcript levels between <em>Dendroctonus ponderosae</em> starved males and those that have been fed in lodgepole pine for 24 hours"</p> <p><em>Project title –</em> "Disentangling detoxification: Gene expression analysis of mountain pine beetle adults feeding on lodgepole pine illuminates molecular-level host chemical defense detoxification mechanisms."</p> <p>The article associated with the generation and analysis of this data is available at PLOS ONE:</p> <p>http://www.plosone.org/article/metrics/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0077777</p

Proteomics contiguous transcript identifier (h_cluster) nucleotide sequence database for overwintering mountain pine beetle larvae

<p>A TXT file containing FASTA nucleotide sequences with "h-cluster" identifiers. This TXT file can be used as a cross reference with the two data files associated with these sequences:</p> <p> </p> <p>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156054</p> <p>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156055</p> <p> </p> <p>These data pertain to the open access paper:</p> <p>Tiffany R. Bonnett, Jeanne A. Robert, Caitlin Pitt, Jordie D. Fraser, Christopher I. Keeling, Jörg Bohlmann, Dezene P.W. Huber, Global and comparative proteomic profiling of overwintering and developing mountain pine beetle, <em>Dendroctonus ponderosae</em> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), larvae, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 42, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 890-901, ISSN 0965-1748, 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.08.003.</p> <p> </p> <p>The paper can be accessed here:</p> <p>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965174812001221</p

Quantitative differences in protein levels between mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, larvae collected from host lodgepole pine trees in March and May

<p>Proteomics data (XLSX file) for overwintering mountain pine beetle, <em>Dedroctonus ponderosae</em>, larvae live-collected from lodgepole pine hosts in March and May.</p> <p>Collections were made near to Valemont, British Columbia, Canada.</p> <p>Please cross reference the following TXT file of FASTA nucleotide data to further investigate any particular protein:<br>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156056</p> <p>Similar proteomic data for autumn-collected larvae are available here:<br>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156055</p> <p>These data pertain to the open access paper:<br>Tiffany R. Bonnett, Jeanne A. Robert, Caitlin Pitt, Jordie D. Fraser, Christopher I. Keeling, Jörg Bohlmann, Dezene P.W. Huber, Global and comparative proteomic profiling of overwintering and developing mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), larvae, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 42, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 890-901, ISSN 0965-1748, 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.08.003.</p> <p>The paper can be accessed here:<br>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965174812001221</p> <p> </p

Quantitative differences in protein levels between mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, larvae collected from host lodgepole pine trees in September and November

<p>Proteomics data (XLSX file) for overwintering mountain pine beetle, <em>Dedroctonus ponderosae</em>, larvae live-collected from lodgepole pine hosts in September and November.</p> <p>Collections were made near to Valemont, British Columbia, Canada.</p> <p>Please cross reference the following TXT file of FASTA nucleotide data to further investigate any particular protein:<br>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156056</p> <p>Similar proteomic data for spring-collected larvae are available here:<br>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.156054</p> <p>These data pertain to the open access paper:<br>Tiffany R. Bonnett, Jeanne A. Robert, Caitlin Pitt, Jordie D. Fraser, Christopher I. Keeling, Jörg Bohlmann, Dezene P.W. Huber, Global and comparative proteomic profiling of overwintering and developing mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), larvae, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 42, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 890-901, ISSN 0965-1748, 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.08.003.</p> <p>The paper can be accessed here:<br>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965174812001221</p> <p> </p