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Alexandra A Mushegian1, Celeste N Peterson, Christopher C M Baker, Anne Pringle.
Abstract
Symbioses are unique habitats for bacteria. We surveyed the spatial diversity of bacterial communities across multiple individuals of closely related lichens using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and pyrosequencing. Centers of lichens house richer, more consistent assemblages than species-poor and compositionally disparate lichen edges, suggesting that ecological succession plays a role in structuring these communities.Mesh:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21531831 PMCID: PMC3131627 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02850-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792