Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1147-1156

  Nemergut, Diana R ^a,b   Knelman, Joseph E ^b   Ferrenberg, Scott ^b,c   Bilinski, Teresa ^d   Melbourne, Brett ^b   Jiang, Lin ^e   Violle, Cyrille ^f   Darcy, John L ^b   Prest, Tiffany ^a   Schmidt, Steven K ^b   Townsend, Alan R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Canyonlands Research Station   (United States)

^d ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; RNA; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; STOCHASTICITY; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

RNA 16S; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MICROBIOLOGY; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL;

BACTERIA; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; GENE DOSAGE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84946811744     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.191     Document Type: Article

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