Changes in bacterial and archaeal community structure and functional diversity along a geochemically variable soil profile

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1620-1633

  Hansel, Colleen M ^a,c   Fendorf, Scott ^a   Jardine, Phillip M ^b   Francis, Christopher A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GENES; WATER CONTENT;

CARBON AVAILABILITY; CULTIVATION INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL AGGREGATES;

SOILS;

AMMONIA; IRON; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARCHEAN; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; RNA; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; VADOSE ZONE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CARBON SOURCE; CRENARCHAEOTA; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PH; SOIL MICROFLORA; SULFUR CYCLE; SURFACE SOIL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER CONTENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE; WATER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 40549127742     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01787-07     Document Type: Article

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