Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 91 - 91
Published: Mar 20, 2017
Abstract
High animal and plant richness in tropical rainforest communities has long intrigued naturalists. It is unknown if similar hyperdiversity patterns are reflected at the microbial scale with unicellular eukaryotes (protists). Here we show, using environmental metabarcoding of soil samples and a phylogeny-aware cleaning step, that protist communities in Neotropical rainforests are hyperdiverse and dominated by the parasitic Apicomplexa, which...
Paper Details
Title
Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests
Published Date
Mar 20, 2017
Volume
1
Issue
4
Pages
91 - 91
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