Differential growth responses of soil bacterial taxa to carbon substrates of varying chemical recalcitrance

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Goldfarb, Katherine C ^a,e   Karaoz, Ulas ^a   Hanson, China A ^b   Santee, Clark A ^a   Bradford, Mark A ^c   Treseder, Kathleen K ^b   Wallenstein, Matthew D ^d   Brodie, Eoin L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bromo deoxyuridine; Carbon; Microarray; rRNA copy number; Soil; Substrate quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053569422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00094     Document Type: Article

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