Effect of the earthworms lumbricus terrestris and aporrectodea caliginosa on bacterial diversity in soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 574-587

  Nechitaylo, Taras Y ^a   Yakimov, Michail M ^b   Godinho, Miguel ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a,d   Belogolova, Elena ^a   Byzov, Boris A ^c   Kurakov, Alexander V ^c   Jones, David L ^e   Golyshin, Peter N ^a,e  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCALIGENES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; PLANCTOMYCETES; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; UNCLASSIFIED SPHINGOMONADACEAE; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77952492820     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-009-9604-y     Document Type: Article

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