Fungal endophyte communities reflect environmental structuring across a Hawaiian landscape

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 13022-13027

  Zimmerman, Naupaka B ^a   Vitousek, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Mauna Loa matrix; Microbial biogeography

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; ENDOPHYTE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYRTACEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPHYTES; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYRTACEAE; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 84864680957     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209872109     Document Type: Article

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