Endophytic fungal communities of Polygonum acuminatum and Aeschynomene fluminensis are influenced by soil mercury contamination

• William Pietro-Souza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: William Pietro-Souza, Marcos Antônio Soares

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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• Ivani Souza Mello ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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• Suzana Junges Vendruscullo ,

  Roles Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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• Gilvan Ferreira da Silva,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Cátia Nunes da Cunha,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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• James Francis White,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

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• Marcos Antônio Soares

  Contributed equally to this work with: William Pietro-Souza, Marcos Antônio Soares

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drmasoares@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-3188

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