Plant species richness belowground: Higher richness and new patterns revealed by next-generation sequencing

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2004-2016

  Hiiesalu, Inga ^a   Öpik, Maarja ^a   Metsis, Madis ^b   Lilje, Liisa ^b   Davison, John ^a   Vasar, Martti ^a   Moora, Mari ^a   Zobel, Martin ^a   Wilson, Scott D ^c   Pärtel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

454 sequencing; DNA barcoding; plant richness; root identification; species coexistence; trnL (UAA)

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; CHLOROPLAST; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPLASTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859619825     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05390.x     Document Type: Article

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