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SUBMITTER: Bever JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547158 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bever James D JD Broadhurst Linda M LM Thrall Peter H PH
Ecology letters 20121206 2
The relationship between ecological variation and microbial genetic composition is critical to understanding microbial influence on community and ecosystem function. In glasshouse trials using nine native legume species and 40 rhizobial strains, we find that bacterial rRNA phylotype accounts for 68% of amoung isolate variability in symbiotic effectiveness and 79% of host specificity in growth response. We also find that rhizobial phylotype diversity and composition of soils collected from a geog ...[more]