Phylogenetic and metagenomic analysis of Verrucomicrobia in former agricultural grassland soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-33

  Kielak, Anna ^a   Rodrigues, Jorge L M ^b   Kuramae, Eiko E ^a,c   Chain, Patrick S G ^d,e   Van Veen, Johannes A ^a,f   Kowalchuk, George A ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial communities; Environmental genomics; Metagenomics; Phylogeny; Rhizosphere; Verrucomicrobia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BACTERIUM; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GRASSLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 71549119880     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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