Diversity, host affinity, and distribution of seed-infecting fungi: A case study with Cecropia

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 582-588

  Gallery, Rachel E ^a   Dalling, James W ^a,b   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Cecropia; Diversity; Fungi; ITS; Pioneer species; Recruitment limitation; Richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RECRUITMENT; SEED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGY; CECROPIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PANAMA; PLANT SEED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASCOMYCOTA; CECROPIA PLANT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; PANAMA; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ASCOMYCOTA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA INSIGNIS; FUNGI;

EID: 34247104717     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1207     Document Type: Article

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