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Developmental differences between a Chinese and a North American isolate of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Tylenchida: Aphelenchoididae) under laboratory conditions

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We thank Dr. X.Y. Cheng (Beijing Normal University) for her kind provision of the nematodes strains. This work was supported by Forestry Industry Research Special Funds for Public Welfare Projects (201004003), National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB119200, 2012CB114105), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31272323, 31221091), the CAS Knowledge Innovation Key Research Program (KSCX2- EW-J-2), and the European 7th Frame Project (REPHRAME).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Shuai Zhang, Jing Ning, Wei Zhang, Christian Salcedo & Lilin Zhao

  2. State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China

    Shuai Zhang

  3. College of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China

    Jing Ning

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Figure S1 Population dynamics of the Chinese (CN) and North American (US) isolates of B. xylophilus. Error bars stand for standard errors (SE) and *, ** and *** stand for significant differences at P<0.05, P<0.01 and P<0.001 respectively.

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Figure S2 Pine seedling (P. thunbergii) phenotypes after 20 days’ inoculation with B. xylophilus. CK, healthy seedlings without nematode inoculation; CN, seedlings inoculated with Chinese isolate of B. xylophilus; US, seedlings inoculated with North American isolate of B. xylophilus.

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Zhang, S., Ning, J., Zhang, W. et al. Developmental differences between a Chinese and a North American isolate of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Tylenchida: Aphelenchoididae) under laboratory conditions. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 921–923 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9103-4

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