Degradation of potassium rock by earthworms and responses of bacterial communities in its gut and surrounding substrates after being fed with mineral

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Dianfeng ^a   Lian, Bin ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^c   Jiang, Guofang ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; IRON; POTASSIUM; RNA 16S; SILICATE; MINERAL; WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINERAL METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEOBACTERIA; ROCK; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WEATHERING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POWDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINERALS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POTASSIUM; POWDERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

EID: 83255164011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028803     Document Type: Article

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