Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2229-2241

  Barnard, Romain L ^a,b,d   Osborne, Catherine A ^a,c   Firestone, Mary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Mediterranean grassland; pyrosequencing; qPCR; rDNA; rpoB; rRNA

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 28S; WATER;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESICCATION; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESILIENCE; REWETTING; RNA; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL NUTRIENT;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DESICCATION; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; DESICCATION; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84886729023     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.104     Document Type: Article

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