NifH- Harboring Bacterial Community Composition Across an Alaskan Permafrost Thaw Gradient

Since nitrogen (N) is often limiting in permafrost soils, we investigated the N2-fixing genetic potential and the inferred taxa harboring those genes by sequencing nifH gene fragments in samples taken along a permafrost thaw gradient in an Alaskan boreal soil. Samples from minimally, moderately and...

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Main Authors: Christopher Ryan Penton, Caiyun Yang, Liyou Wu, Qiong Wang, Jin Zhang, Feifei Liu, Yujia Qin, Ye Deng, Christopher L Hemme, Tianling Zheng, Edward A.G. Schuur, James M. Tiedje, Jizhong Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01894/full