Microbial communities show parallels at sites with distinct litter and soil characteristics

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7560-7567

  Sagova Mareckova, Marketa ^a   Omelka, Marek ^b   Cermak, Ladislav ^a   Kamenik, Zdenek ^c   Olsovska, Jana ^d   Hackl, Evelyn ^e   Kopecky, Jan ^a   Hadacek, Franz ^f  

^a CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Research Institute of Brewing and Malting   (Czech Republic)

^e AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; C/N RATIO; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LITTER QUALITY; LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT COMPOUNDS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL CHARACTERISTICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; N CONTENT; PINE FOREST; QUANTITATIVE PCR; RECALCITRANT COMPOUNDS; RESISTANCE GENES; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL EXTRACTS; SOIL NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL PH; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; FORESTRY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RRNA (ADENOSINE O 2' )METHYLTRANSFERASE; RRNA (ADENOSINE-O-2'-)METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FUNGUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; FORESTRY; FREE RADICALS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; REACTION MECHANISMS; SOIL; SURVEYS;

EID: 83155191042     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00527-11     Document Type: Article

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