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Zhangjing Chen, Marshall S. White *, Melody A. Keena, Therese M. Poland, Erin L. Clark

The authors are, respectively, Research Associate and Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Dept. of Wood Sci. and Forest Products, Blacksburg, Virginia (chengo@vt.edu, mswhite@vt.edu); Research Entomologist, USDA Forest Serv., Northern Research Sta., Hamden, Connecticut (mkeena@fs.fed.us); Research Entomologist, USDA Forest Serv., Northern Research Sta., East Lansing, Michigan (tpoland@fs.fed.us); and Graduate Research Assistant, formerly with the USDA Forest Serv., Northern Research Sta., East Lansing, Michigan, now at the Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Ecosystem Sci. and Management Program, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada (EClarkl@UNBC.ca). The authors thank Toby Petrice and Tina Kuhn for assistance in collecting EAB larvae; Alice Vandel and Paul Moore for assistance with the ALB larval work; and Robert Haack and Kelli Hoover for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript. This paper was received for publication in March 2008. Article No. 10467.

* Forest Products Society Member.

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