Fine-Scale Adaptations to Environmental Variation and Growth Strategies Drive Phyllosphere <i>Methylobacterium</i> Diversity
Jean‐Baptiste Leducq, Émilie Seyer-Lamontagne, Domitille Condrain-Morel, Geneviève Bourret, David Sneddon, James A. Foster, Christopher J. Marx, Jack Sullivan, B. Jesse Shapiro, Steven W. Kembel
Abstract
Methylobacterium is a bacterial group tied to plants. Despite the ubiquity of methylobacteria and the importance to their hosts, little is known about the processes driving Methylobacterium community dynamics.
Topics & Concepts
MethylobacteriumPhyllosphereDiversity (politics)Scale (ratio)Adaptation (eye)BiologyEcologyGeographyBacteriaCartographySociology16S ribosomal RNAGeneticsAnthropologyNeuroscienceFermentation and Sensory AnalysisMicrobial metabolism and enzyme functionBiofuel production and bioconversion