Horizon-specific bacterial community composition of german grassland soils, as revealed by pyrosequencing-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6751-6759

  Will, Christiane ^a   Thürmer, Andrea ^b   Wollherr, Antje ^b   Nacke, Heiko ^a   Herold, Nadine ^b,c   Schrumpf, Marion ^b,c   Gutknecht, Jessica ^d   Wubet, Tesfaye ^d   Buscot, François ^d   Daniell, Rolf ^a,b  

^a Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ACTINOBACTERIA; AVERAGE NUMBERS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT LAND USE TYPES; DOMAIN LEVELS; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; GRASSLAND SOILS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITROSPIRA; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; PYROSEQUENCING; SOIL BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROPERTY; TAXONOMIC GROUPS; TOTAL NITROGEN CONTENT;

GENES; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA; SOILS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; NITROGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND SOIL; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RNA; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROPERTY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GERMANY; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GERMANY; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

GERMANY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIBROBACTERES; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; NITROSPIRA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 77958542467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01063-10     Document Type: Article

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