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Ecological genomics of tropical trees: how local population size and allelic diversity of resistance genes relate to immune responses, cosusceptibility to pathogens, and negative density dependence.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2017
Marden J H, Mangan S A, Peterson M P, Wafula E, Fescemyer H W, Der J P, dePamphilis C W, Comita L S
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In tropical forests, rarer species show increased sensitivity to species-specific soil pathogens and more negative effects of conspecific density on seedling survival (NDD). These patterns suggest a connection between ecology and immunity, perhaps because small population size disproportionately reduces genetic diversity of hyperdiverse loci such as immunity genes. In an experiment examining seedling roots from...
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