| Literature DB >> 30962560 |
Georgina L Brennan1, Caitlin Potter2, Natasha de Vere2,3, Gareth W Griffith2, Carsten A Skjøth4, Nicholas J Osborne5,6,7, Benedict W Wheeler5, Rachel N McInnes8, Yolanda Clewlow8, Adam Barber8, Helen M Hanlon8, Matthew Hegarty2, Laura Jones9,3, Alexander Kurganskiy4, Francis M Rowney5, Charlotte Armitage10, Beverley Adams-Groom4, Col R Ford3, Geoff M Petch4, Simon Creer11.
Abstract
Grass pollen is the world's most harmful outdoor aeroallergen. However, it is unknown how airborne pollen assemblages change across time and space. Human sensitivity varies between different species of grass that flower at different times, but it is not known whether temporal turnover in species composition match terrestrial flowering or whether species richness steadily accumulates over the grass pollen season. Here, using targeted, high-throughput sequencing, we demonstrate that all grass genera displayed discrete, temporally restricted peaks of incidence, which varied with latitude and longitude throughout Great Britain, revealing that the taxonomic composition of grass pollen exposure changes substantially across the grass pollen season.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 30962560 DOI： 10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Ecol Evol ISSN： 2397-334X Impact factor: 15.460