More bang for the buck? Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities be characterized adequately alongside other fungi using general fungal primers?

Ylva Lekberg; Martti Vasar; Lorinda S Bullington; Siim-Kaarel Sepp; Pedro M Antunes; Rebecca Bunn; Beau G Larkin; Maarja Öpik

doi:10.1111/nph.15035

More bang for the buck? Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities be characterized adequately alongside other fungi using general fungal primers?

New Phytol. 2018 Dec;220(4):971-976. doi: 10.1111/nph.15035. Epub 2018 Feb 1.

Authors

Ylva Lekberg^{1

2}, Martti Vasar³, Lorinda S Bullington¹, Siim-Kaarel Sepp³, Pedro M Antunes⁴, Rebecca Bunn⁵, Beau G Larkin¹, Maarja Öpik³

Affiliations

¹ MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, 59803, USA.
² Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.
³ Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia.
⁴ Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6B 2G4, Canada.
⁵ Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98225, USA.

PMID: 29388685
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15035

No abstract available

Keywords: AMF specific primers; SSU rRNA geneprocrustes; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); community composition; general fungal primers; internal transcribed spacer; richness.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Fungi / genetics
Fungi / physiology*
Genetic Markers
Mycobiome*
Mycorrhizae / physiology*
Phylogeny
Ribosome Subunits, Small / genetics

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Genetic Markers

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MeSH terms

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Grants and funding