%0 Electronic Article %A Li, Yunshi and Wu, Xiukun and Wang, Wanfu and Wang, Minghao and Zhao, Changming and Chen, Tuo and Liu, Guangxiu and Zhang, Wei and Li, Shiweng and Zhou, Huaizhe and Wu, Minghui and Yang, Ruiqi and Zhang, Gaosen %I PeerJ %D 2019 %D 2019 %G English %@ 2167-8359 %~ Katalog der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau %T Microbial taxonomical composition in spruce phyllosphere, but not community functional structure, varies by geographical location %V 7 %J PeerJ %V 7 %P e7376 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7376 %X Previous studies indicate that the plant phenotypic traits eventually shape its microbiota due to the community assembly based on the functional types. If so, the distance-related variations of microbial communities are mostly only in taxonomical composition due to the different seeds pool, and there is no difference in microbial community functional structure if the location associated factors would not cause phenotypical variations in plants. We test this hypothesis by investigating the phyllospheric microbial community from five species of spruce (Piceaspp.) trees that planted similarly but at three different locations. Results indicated that the geographical location affected microbial taxonomical compositions and had no effect on the community functional structure. In fact, this actually leads to a spurious difference in the microbial community. Our findings suggest that, within similar host plants, the phyllosphere microbial communities with differing taxonomical compositions might be functionally similar. %Z https://www.katalog.fh-zwickau.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuNzcxNy9wZWVyai43Mzc2 %U https://www.katalog.fh-zwickau.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuNzcxNy9wZWVyai43Mzc2