Forest floor community metatranscriptomes identify fungal and bacterial responses to N deposition in two maple forests

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Hesse, Cedar N ^a   Mueller, Rebecca C ^a   Vuyisich, Momchilo ^a   Gallegos Graves, La Verne ^a   Gleasner, Cheryl D ^a   Zak, Donald R ^b   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate active enzymes; Metatranscriptomics; Nitrogen deposition; Soil bacterial community; Soil fungal community; Soil RNA

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE ACTIVE ENZYME; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGNOCELLULOSE; METATRANSCRIPTOME; MICROBIAL ENZYME; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBON CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FUNGAL BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LITTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA GENE; RNA PURIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ACER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84930934877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00337     Document Type: Article

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