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Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots?
Ecology - 1 Mar 2007
Arnold A Elizabeth, Lutzoni F
Abstract excerpt
Fungal endophytes are found in asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of all major lineages of land plants. The ubiquity of these cryptic symbionts is clear, but the scale of their diversity, host range, and geographic distributions are unknown. To explore the putative hyperdiversity of tropical leaf endophytes, we compared endophyte communities along a broad latitudinal gradient from the Canadian arctic to the...
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