Ecological roles of dominant and rare prokaryotes in acid mine drainage revealed by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1280-1294

  Hua, Zheng Shuang ^a   Han, Yu Jiao ^a   Chen, Lin Xing ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Hu, Min ^a   Li, Sheng Jin ^a   Kuang, Jia Liang ^a   Chain, Patrick Sg ^b   Huang, Li Nan ^a   Shu, Wen Sheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; DATA SET; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROKARYOTE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PROKARYOTA;

ACID; CARBON; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MINING; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; POLLUTANT;

ACIDS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CARBON; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METAGENOMICS; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84929655674     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.212     Document Type: Article

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