Bacterial community structure of contrasting soils underlying Bornean rain forests: Inferences from microarray and next-generation sequencing methods

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-59

  Russo, Sabrina E ^a   Legge, Ryan ^b   Weber, Karrie A ^a,b   Brodie, Eoin L ^c   Goldfarb, Katherine C ^c   Benson, Andrew K ^b   Tan, Sylvester ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacteria; Borneo; Community; Ecology; Malaysia; Microorganisms; PhyloChip; Pyrosequencing; Soil; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; BORNEO; COMMUNITY; MALAYSIA; PHYLOCHIP; PYROSEQUENCING; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CLAY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MICROORGANISMS; RAIN; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOIL CONDITIONERS; SOILS;

BACTERIA;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY SOIL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST SOIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OXYGEN; PH; PHYLOGENETICS; RAINFOREST; SANDY LOAM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BACTERIA; BORNEO; CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; MALAYSIA; MICROORGANISMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SOIL; SOIL CONDITIONERS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

BORNEO; MALAYSIA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84864066889     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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