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SUBMITTER: Bar-Shmuel N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5799335 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bar-Shmuel Nitsan N Rogovin Elena E Rachmilevitch Shimon S Friedman Ariel-Leib-Leonid AL Shelef Oren O Hoffmann Ishai I Rosenberg Tamir T Behar Adi A Shavit Reut R Meng Fengqun F Segoli Michal M
Scientific reports 20180205 1
The weevil Conorhynchus palumbus develops in a mud chamber affixed to the roots of the summer annual plant Salsola inermis in the Negev Desert of Israel. The weevil carries nitrogen fixing bacteria, and evidence suggests that plants with weevils utilize the fixed nitrogen. To characterize the distribution, abundance and significance of this unique interaction, we surveyed Salsola plants in 16 sites throughout the Negev Desert. We excavated ~100 plants from each site, recorded the presence of wee ...[more]