Cell size distributions of soil bacterial and archaeal taxa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7610-7617

  Portillo, Maria C ^a   Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY; NUTRIENT ACQUISITION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION PATTERN; SOIL MICRO-ORGANISMS; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION;

BACTERIA; CELLS; RNA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

CYTOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAXONOMY;

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; FILTRATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84888230785     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02710-13     Document Type: Article

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