Deciphering functional diversification within the lichen microbiota by meta-omics

Abstract Background Recent evidence of specific bacterial communities extended the traditional concept of fungal-algal lichen symbioses by a further organismal kingdom. Although functional roles were already assigned to dominant members of the highly diversified microbiota, a substantial fraction of...

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Main Authors: Tomislav Cernava, Armin Erlacher, Ines Aline Aschenbrenner, Lisa Krug, Christian Lassek, Katharina Riedel, Martin Grube, Gabriele Berg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0303-5