Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition
(2019) In Nature Ecology and Evolution 3(5). p.750-754- Abstract
Grass pollen is the world’s most harmful outdoor aeroallergen. However, it is unknown how airborne pollen assemblages change across time and space. Human sensitivity varies between different species of grass that flower at different times, but it is not known whether temporal turnover in species composition match terrestrial flowering or whether species richness steadily accumulates over the grass pollen season. Here, using targeted, high-throughput sequencing, we demonstrate that all grass genera displayed discrete, temporally restricted peaks of incidence, which varied with latitude and longitude throughout Great Britain, revealing that the taxonomic composition of grass pollen exposure changes substantially across the grass pollen... (More)
Grass pollen is the world’s most harmful outdoor aeroallergen. However, it is unknown how airborne pollen assemblages change across time and space. Human sensitivity varies between different species of grass that flower at different times, but it is not known whether temporal turnover in species composition match terrestrial flowering or whether species richness steadily accumulates over the grass pollen season. Here, using targeted, high-throughput sequencing, we demonstrate that all grass genera displayed discrete, temporally restricted peaks of incidence, which varied with latitude and longitude throughout Great Britain, revealing that the taxonomic composition of grass pollen exposure changes substantially across the grass pollen season.
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abstract = {{<p>Grass pollen is the world’s most harmful outdoor aeroallergen. However, it is unknown how airborne pollen assemblages change across time and space. Human sensitivity varies between different species of grass that flower at different times, but it is not known whether temporal turnover in species composition match terrestrial flowering or whether species richness steadily accumulates over the grass pollen season. Here, using targeted, high-throughput sequencing, we demonstrate that all grass genera displayed discrete, temporally restricted peaks of incidence, which varied with latitude and longitude throughout Great Britain, revealing that the taxonomic composition of grass pollen exposure changes substantially across the grass pollen season.</p>}},
author = {{Brennan, Georgina L. and Potter, Caitlin and de Vere, Natasha and Griffith, Gareth W. and Skjøth, Carsten A. and Osborne, Nicholas J. and Wheeler, Benedict W. and McInnes, Rachel N. and Clewlow, Yolanda and Barber, Adam and Hanlon, Helen M. and Hegarty, Matthew and Jones, Laura and Kurganskiy, Alexander and Rowney, Francis M. and Armitage, Charlotte and Adams-Groom, Beverley and Ford, Col R. and Petch, Geoff M. and Elliot, Angela and Frisk, Carl A. and Neilson, Roy and Potter, Stephen and Rafiq, Abdullah M. and Roy, David B. and Selby, Katherine and Steinberg, Natascha and Creer, Simon}},
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title = {{Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition}},
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