Spatial structuring of bacterial communities within individual Ginkgo biloba trees

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2352-2361

  Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Del Tredici, Peter ^b   Friedman, William E ^b   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GINKGO BILOBA;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; GINKGO BILOBA; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; GINKGO BILOBA; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TREES;

EID: 84937029521     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12695     Document Type: Article

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