Community composition of root-associated fungi in a Quercus-dominated temperate forest: "codominance" of mycorrhizal and root-endophytic fungi

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1281-1293

  Toju, Hirokazu ^a   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Hirotoshi ^a   Tanabe, Akifumi S ^a,b   Gilbert, Gregory S ^c   Kadowaki, Kohmei ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

454 next generation sequencing; Dark septate endophytes; Fungal communities; Metagenomics; Mycorrhizae; Network theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883553716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.546     Document Type: Article

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