A novel rapid sampling method for pinewood nematode, <i>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus</i> (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner & Buhrer) Nickle, is listed as a quarantine pest in the legislation of more than 40 countries. Rapid and accurate detection of the pinewood nematode in coniferous chips, sawn wood, and logs is critical in preventing the introduction of the nematode and forms the basis for quarantine regulations. The traditional but laborious Baermann-funnel sampling technique delays the detection of pinewood nematode. We applied the chemotactic response of pinewood nematode to its insect vector, Monochamus alternatus Hope, to develop a novel and rapid sampling method. A trap tube, baited with a blend of attractant terpenes (α-pinene, β-pinene, and longifolene, 1:2.7:1.1) is shown to effectively capture third-stage dispersal juveniles of pinewood nematode from infested wood under laboratory and field conditions. Nematodes were first isolated after a 2 h trapping period, and the number of nematodes recovered increased with the duration of trapping. This chemical attraction technique is simple, effective, and rapid and should assist greatly in the detection of pinewood nematode at both ports-of-entry and forest habitats.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".