Publication: Bacterial Diversity across Individual Lichens
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2011
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American Society for Microbiology
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Mushegian, A. A., C. N. Peterson, C. C. M. Baker, and A. Pringle. 2011. “Bacterial Diversity Across Individual Lichens.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77 (12) (April 29): 4249–4252. doi:10.1128/aem.02850-10.
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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.
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