TY - JOUR
AU - Brennan Georgina L.
AU - Potter Caitlin
AU - De Vere Natasha
AU - Griffith Gareth W.
AU - Skjøth Carsten A.
AU - Osborne Nicholas J.
AU - Wheeler Benedict W.
AU - McInnes Rachel N.
AU - Clewlow Yolanda
AU - Barber Adam
AU - Hanlon Helen M.
AU - Hegarty Matthew
AU - Jones Laura
AU - Kurganskiy Alexander
AU - Rowney Francis M.
AU - Armitage Charlotte
AU - Adams-Groom Beverley
AU - Ford Col R.
AU - Petch Geoff M.
AU - Elliot Angela
AU - Frisk Carl A.
AU - Neilson Roy
AU - Potter Stephen
AU - Rafiq Abdullah M.
AU - Roy David B.
AU - Selby Katherine
AU - Steinberg Natascha
AU - Creer Simon
AU - The_PollerGEN_Consortium
AB - 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.

BT - Nature Ecology & Evolution
DA - 2019/05/01
DO - 10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
IS - 5
N2 - 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.

PY - 2019
SN - 2397-334X
SP - 750
EP - 754
EP - 
T2 - Nature Ecology & Evolution
TI - Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
VL - 3
ER -