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Land use change alters functional gene diversity, composition and abundance in Amazon forest soil microbial communities.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2014
Paula Fabiana S, Rodrigues Jorge L M, Zhou Jizhong, Wu Liyou, Mueller Rebecca C, Mirza Babur S, Bohannan Brendan J M, Nüsslein Klaus, Deng Ye, Tiedje James M, Pellizari Vivian H
Abstract excerpt
Land use change in the Amazon rainforest alters the taxonomic structure of soil microbial communities, but whether it alters their functional gene composition is unknown. We used the highly parallel microarray technology GeoChip 4.0, which contains 83,992 probes specific for genes linked nutrient cycling and other processes, to evaluate how the diversity, abundance and similarity of the targeted genes responded...
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