Rhizobiales as functional and endosymbiontic members in the lichen symbiosis of Lobaria pulmonaria L

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Erlacher, Armin ^a,b   Cernava, Tomislav ^a   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^a,b   Soh, Jung ^c   Sensen, Christoph W ^a   Grube, Martin ^b   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Lichen symbiosis; Lobaria pulmonaria; Metagenomics; Rhizobiales; Rhizobiales specific FISH probe

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LICHEN (ORGANISM); LOBARIA PULMONARIA; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RHIZOBIALES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 84927564740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00053     Document Type: Article

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