Integrated metagenomics and network analysis of soil microbial community of the forest timberline

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ding, Junjun ^a,b   Zhang, Yuguang ^a   Deng, Ye ^c,d   Cong, Jing ^a,f   Lu, Hui ^a   Sun, Xin ^b   Yang, Caiyun ^d   Yuan, Tong ^d   Van Nostrand, Joy D ^d   Li, Diqiang ^a   Zhou, Jizhong ^b,d,e   Yang, Yunfeng ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84923069969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07994     Document Type: Article

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