Fungal Endophytes in Aboveground Tissues of Desert Plants: Infrequent in Culture, but Highly Diverse and Distinctive Symbionts

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-76

  Massimo, Nicholas C ^a   Nandi Devan, M M ^b   Arendt, Kayla R ^a   Wilch, Margaret H ^c   Riddle, Jakob M ^a   Furr, Susan H ^a   Steen, Cole ^a   U’Ren, Jana M ^a   Sandberg, Dustin C ^a   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c Tucson High Magnet School   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid lands; Ascomycota; Diversity; Dothideomycetes; Fungi; Larrea; Parkinsonia; Phylogeny; Preussia; Simmondsia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; LARREA; PARKINSONIA; SIMMONDSIA;

ARIZONA; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; ENDOPHYTE; EVOLUTION; FOOD; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ARIZONA; ASCOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; ENDOPHYTES; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84938216363     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0563-6     Document Type: Article

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