The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1450-1455

  Bergmann, Gaddy T ^a   Bates, Scott T ^a   Eilers, Kathryn G ^a   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Caporaso, J Gregory ^a   Walters, William A ^a   Knight, Rob ^a,b   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; Bacteria; Barcoded pyrosequencing; Ecological dominance; Oligotroph; Primer bias; Relative abundance; Spartobacteria; Subsurface horizon; Verrucomicrobia

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ECOLOGICAL DOMINANCE; OLIGOTROPH; PRIMER BIAS; PYROSEQUENCING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPARTOBACTERIA; SUBSURFACE HORIZON; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GENES; RNA;

SOILS;

BACTERIUM; BIOME; DOMINANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANTARCTICA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPARTOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 79955980612     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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