Ecological patterns of nifH genes in four terrestrial climatic zones explored with targeted metagenomics using framebot, a new informatics tool

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Qiong ^a   Quensen III, John F ^a   Fish, Jordan A ^a   Lee, Tae Kwon ^b   Sun, Yanni ^c   Tiedje, James M ^a   Cole, James R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINITROGENASE REDUCTASE;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; LAND BIOME; LIGHT INTENSITY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIDE AREA NETWORK;

ALASKA; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HAWAII; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UTAH;

EID: 84885409586     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00592-13     Document Type: Article

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