The communities of microorganisms associated with humans and other animals are characterized by a large degree of diversity and unexplained variation across individual hosts. While efforts to explain this variation in ...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) provide numerous services to their plant symbionts. Understanding the effects of climate change on AMF, and the resulting plant responses, is a crucial factor in predicting ecosystem ...
Vandegrift, Andrew(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
Endophytic fungi live within tissues of plant hosts without causing symptoms of disease. These fungi are broadly split into the taxonomically and ecologically cohesive Clavicipitaceous endophytes, which infect grasses, and ...
Siemens, Andy; Hartmann, Erica M.; Bentancourt-Roman, Clarisse M.; Fretz, Mark; Kline, Jeff; Northcutt, Dale; Brown, G. Z.; Bohannan, B. J. M.; Greene, Jessica L.(University of Oregon, 2015)
Stagaman, Keaton(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that host-associated microbial communities play an integral role in the development, physiology, and health of their host organisms. All hosts have evolved ...
Microorganisms are critical to the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and may also play a role in the functioning of the atmosphere. However, little is known about the diversity and function of microorganisms ...
Plants are inhabited by diverse species of bacteria and fungi, which affect plant health and fitness. Endophytes are bacteria or fungi that live within plant host tissues without causing symptoms of disease, and mediate ...
Dracula orchids are hypothesized to rely on mushroom mimicry for pollination. These orchids look and smell like mushrooms and are pollinated by mushroom-associated flies in the family Drosophilidae. Dracula includes over ...
The skin is a primary interface for human-microbe interaction. Many studies are concerned with
determining what bacterial taxa inhabit the skin, rather than the absolute quantities of bacteria inhabiting
environmentally ...
Tropical ecosystems are some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems are also some of the most threatened worldwide and this is largely driven by agricultural expansion. Predicting ...
The skin microbiome is a critical component of human health, however, little is understood about the daily dynamics of skin microbiome community assembly and the skin’s potential to acquire microorganisms from the external ...
Understanding methane (CH4) cycling dynamics is of paramount importance because CH4 has 45 times the sustained-flux global warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) and is currently the second most important anthropogenic ...