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Continental-scale variation in seaweed host-associated bacterial communities is a function of host condition, not geography.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2015
Marzinelli Ezequiel M, Campbell Alexandra H, Zozaya Valdes Enrique, Vergés Adriana, Nielsen Shaun, Wernberg Thomas, de Bettignies Thibaut, Bennett Scott, Caporaso J Gregory, Thomas Torsten, Steinberg Peter D
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Interactions between hosts and associated microbial communities can fundamentally shape the development and ecology of 'holobionts', from humans to marine habitat-forming organisms such as seaweeds. In marine systems, planktonic microbial community structure is mainly driven by geography and related environmental factors, but the large-scale drivers of host-associated microbial communities are largely unknown....
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