Bacterial Communities of Diatoms Display Strong Conservation Across Strains and Time

Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play important roles in shaping the microenvironment surrounding these organisms and in turn influence global biogeochemical cycles. This microenvironment, known as the phycosphere, is presumed to shape the bacterial diversity around phytoplankton and...

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Main Authors: Gregory Behringer, Michael A. Ochsenkühn, Cong Fei, Jhamal Fanning, Julie A. Koester, Shady A. Amin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00659/full