Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest

Abstract Background The phyllosphere is an important microbial habitat, but our understanding of how plant hosts drive the composition of their associated leaf microbial communities and whether taxonomic associations between plants and phyllosphere microbes represent adaptive matching remains limite...

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Main Authors: Geneviève Lajoie, Rémi Maglione, Steven W. Kembel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-020-00844-7