Microbial community functional change during vertebrate carrion decomposition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Pechal, Jennifer L ^a,c   Crippen, Tawni L ^b   Tarone, Aaron M ^c   Lewis, Andrew J ^a   Tomberlin, Jeffery K ^c   Benbow, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PYROSEQUENCING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ANIMALS; MEAT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84893387620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079035     Document Type: Article

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