The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota)

New Phytologist

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 223-241

  Opik M ^a   Vanatoa, A ^b   Vanatoa, E ^a   Moora, M ^a   Davison, J ^a   Kalwij, J M ^a   Reier, U ^a   Zobel, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; Distribution; Diversity; Global; Host range; Metadata; Sequence database; SSU rDNA

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; DATABASE; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PLANT; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GLOMEROMYCOTA; INTERNET; MYCORRHIZA; PHYLOGENY; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GLOMEROMYCOTA; INTERNET; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77956292194     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03334.x     Document Type: Article

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