Mercury contamination imposes structural shift on the microbial community of an agricultural soil

Abstract Background The purpose of this study is to use shotgun next-generation sequencing to unravel the microbial community structure of an agricultural soil, decipher the effects of mercury contamination on the structure of the microbial community and the soil physicochemistry and heavy metals co...

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Main Authors: Lateef Babatunde Salam, Halima Shomope, Zainab Ummi, Fatima Bukar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-11-01
Series:Bulletin of the National Research Centre
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42269-019-0208-5