Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1007-1017

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Ramirez, Kelly S ^a   Zaneveld, Jesse ^a   Bradford, Mark A ^b   Knight, Rob ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

nitrogen fertilization; pyrosequencing; shotgun metagenomics; soil bacteria; soil carbon dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GENOMICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; METAGENOMICS; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BACTEROIDETES PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84859911168     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.159     Document Type: Article

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