Microbial ecosystems are dominated by specialist taxa

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 974-982

  Mariadassou, Mahendra ^a   Pichon, Samuel ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abundance; Beta diversity; Communities; Microbial ecology; Microbiota; Specialist taxa; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HABITAT TYPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DAPHNIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; SEDIMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84939581424     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12478     Document Type: Article

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