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Multi-host ectomycorrhizal fungi are predominant in a Guinean tropical rainforest and shared between canopy trees and seedlings

  1. Abdala Gamby Diédhiou1,2,†,*,
  2. Marc-André Selosse3,
  3. Antoine Galiana1,
  4. Moussa Diabaté1,4,
  5. Bernard Dreyfus1,
  6. Amadou Moustapha Bâ1,5,
  7. Sergio Miana De Faria6,
  8. Gilles Béna1

Article first published online: 3 MAR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02183.x

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Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Microbiology

Special Issue: Symbiosis. Editors: Professors Paola Bonfante, Karen Visick, and Moriya Ohkuma

Volume 12, Issue 8, pages 2219–2232, August 2010

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Diédhiou, A. G., Selosse, M.-A., Galiana, A., Diabaté, M., Dreyfus, B., Bâ, A. M., De Faria, S. M. and Béna, G. (2010), Multi-host ectomycorrhizal fungi are predominant in a Guinean tropical rainforest and shared between canopy trees and seedlings. Environmental Microbiology, 12: 2219–2232. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02183.x

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  1. 1

    Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR113 – INRA/AGRO-M/CIRAD/IRD/UM2 – TA10/J, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

  2. 2

    Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie, IRD/UCAD/ISRA, BP 1386 Dakar, Sénégal.

  3. 3

    Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS, UMR 5175), Equipe Interactions Biotiques, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

  4. 4

    Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée, Division des Cultures Pérennes, Programme Recherche Forestière, BP 1523, Conakry, République de Guinée.

  5. 5

    Laboratoire de Biologie et Physiologie Végétales, Faculté des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, BP 592, 97159 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France.

  6. 6

    Embrapa Agrobiologia km 47, antiga estrada Rio-São Paulo, Seropédica 23851-970 Brazil.

  1. †

    Present address: Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie, IRD/UCAD/ISRA, BP 1386 Bel-Air, Dakar, Senegal.

* E-mail fungalmolecol@gmail.com; Tel. (+221) 33 849 33 32; Fax (+221) 33 849 33 02.

  1. †

    Present address: Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie, IRD/UCAD/ISRA, BP 1386 Bel-Air, Dakar, Senegal.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 AUG 2010
  2. Article first published online: 3 MAR 2010
  3. Received 14 May, 2009; accepted 21 December, 2009.

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