The transcriptional response of microbial communities in thawing Alaskan permafrost soils

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Coolen, Marco J L ^a,b   Orsi, William D ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acetoclastic methanogenesis; Biofilm formation; Cellular defense mechanisms; DNA repair; Hydrolysis of biopolymers; Metatranscriptomics; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PERMAFROST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; THAWING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES;

EID: 84927520660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00197     Document Type: Article

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