Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3137-3149

  DeAngelis, Kristen M ^a,b   Silver, Whendee L ^a,b   Thompson, Andrew W ^b   Firestone, Mary K ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; IRON;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL; TREE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77952423292     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02286.x     Document Type: Article

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