Oligotyping reveals stronger relationship of organic soil bacterial community structure with N-amendments and soil chemistry in comparison to that of mineral soil at Harvard Forest, MA, USA

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Turlapati, Swathi A ^a,b   Minocha, Rakesh ^b   Long, Stephanie ^b   Ramsdell, Jordan ^a   Minocha, Subhash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; Entropy; Forest soils; Microbiome; Oligotypes; OTUs; Pyrosequencing; QIIME software

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROFLEXI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA ISOLATION; FIRMICUTES; GEMMATIMONADETES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MINERAL SOIL; NITROSPIRA; OLIGOTYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 84927518581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00049     Document Type: Article

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