16S rRNA gene analyses of bacterial community structures in the soils of evergreen broad-leaved forests in south-west China

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-259

  Chan, On Chim ^a,d   Yang, Xiaodong ^a   Fu, Yun ^a   Feng, Zhili ^a   Sha, Liqing ^a   Casper, Peter ^b   Zou, Xiaoming ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Bacterial community structure; Carbon and nutrient contents; Cloning; Forest soil; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST SOIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM; CHINA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREST; FOREST SOIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VERRUCOMICROBACTERIUM;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREES;

AILAO MOUNTAINS; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 33750056031     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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