Links between methanotroph community composition and CH4 oxidation in a pine forest soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 356-366

  Bengtson, Per ^a,d   Basiliko, Nathan ^a,f   Dumont, Marc G ^b,e   Hills, Melissa ^c   Murrell, J Colin ^b   Roy, Réal ^c   Grayston, Sue J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Methane mono oxygenase; Methane oxidizing bacteria; Methanotroph; Nucleic acid; Phospholipid fatty acid; Stable isotope probing

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FATTY ACID; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FATTY ACID; FOREST SOIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHANE; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; ORGANIC SOIL; PHOSPHOLIPID; STABLE ISOTOPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST SOIL; METHANOTROPH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PINUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70449123858     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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