Eelgrass Leaf Surface Microbiomes Are Locally Variable and Highly Correlated with Epibiotic Eukaryotes

Eelgrass Leaf Surface Microbiomes Are Locally Variable and Highly Correlated with Epibiotic Eukaryotes

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a marine foundation species essential for coastal ecosystem services around the northern hemisphere. Like all macroscopic organisms, it possesses a microbiome (here defined as an associated prokaryotic community) which may play critical roles in modulating the interactio...

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Main Authors: Mia M. Bengtsson, Anton Bühler, Anne Brauer, Sven Dahlke, Hendrik Schubert, Irmgard Blindow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
seagrass
microbial interactions
microbial eukaryotes
community assembly
biofilms
Baltic Sea
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01312/full

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