The spruce bark beetle Ips typographus transmits mutualistic fungi in mandibular mycetangia
Maximilian Lehenberger, Veit Grabe, Dineshkumar Kandasamy, Niklas Gentsch, Christoph Au, Ana Patricia Baños-Quintana, Martin Schebeck, Martin Kaltenpoth, Jonathan Gershenzon
This study identifies a mandibular mycetangium in the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus that facilitates the transmission of mutualistic fungi.
bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2026 · PreprintEcology