title: Covariation of soil bacterial composition with plant rarity.
abstract: Rare and common plants are predicted to host different rhizospheric microbes. To evaluate this prediction, we used terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis to compare rhizospheric bacteria from eight native grass species whose local abundances in their natural ecosystem spanned a 15-fold range. We observed that locally rare versus common plants are associated with divergent bacterial communities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Valerie.M.Huguet@rice.edu
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Huguet
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rudgers
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D044822:Biodiversity; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D058441:Rhizosphere; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial