Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21390-21395

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Adams, Byron J ^b   Nielsen, Uffe N ^c   Bates, Scott Thomas ^a   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Owens, Sarah ^d,e   Gilbert, Jack A ^d,e   Wall, Diana H ^f   Caporaso, J Gregory ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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

^g Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Biogeography; Shotgun metagenomics; Soil microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOME; CATABOLISM; DESERT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLE; OSMOREGULATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871826193     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215210110     Document Type: Article

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