Soil-dwelling Fungi Found Mysteriously Distributed Worldwide (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Soil-dwelling Fungi Found Mysteriously Distributed Worldwide (1 of 3)

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Sampling plant roots in an Alpine meadow. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 28, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Davison at University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia, and colleagues was titled, "Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism."

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Photograph by Martin Zobel

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