Navigating the labyrinth: A guide to sequence-based, community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

New Phytologist

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 235-247

  Hart, Miranda M ^a   Aleklett, Kristin ^a   Chagnon, Pierre Luc ^b   Egan, Cameron ^a   Ghignone, Stefano ^c   Helgason, Thorunn ^d   Lekberg, Ylva ^e   Öpik, Maarja ^f   Pickles, Brian J ^a   Waller, Lauren ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

PCR; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); Bioinformatics; Environmental sequencing; Next generation sequencing (NGS)

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

FUNGI;

FUNGAL DNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOTA; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MYCORRHIZA; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

BIOTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, FUNGAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84929959448     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13340     Document Type: Article

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