Ancient and modern colonization of North America by hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), an invasive insect from East Asia
Havill N, Shiyake S, Lamb Galloway A, Foottit R, Yu G, Paradis A, Elkinton J, Montgomery M, Sano M, Caccone A. Ancient and modern colonization of North America by hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), an invasive insect from East Asia. Molecular Ecology 2016, 25: 2065-2080. PMID: 26880353, DOI: 10.1111/mec.13589.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWestern North AmericaEastern North AmericaNorth AmericaAdelges tsugaeHost specializationExtreme genetic bottleneckWorldwide genetic structurePleistocene glacial periodsSouthern JapanMitochondrial COI sequencesGlacial periodSpecies traitsAdelgid invasionApproximate Bayesian computationInvasive insectsHemlock speciesContinental scaleInvasion pathwaysTsuga speciesGenetic bottleneckGenetic structureHost treesEndemic lineagesInvasive pestHemlock trees