Add to ORKGRecent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bacteria are not the only microorganisms found in soil. To our knowledge, no study has compared the diversities of the four major microbial taxa, i.e., bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, from an individual soil sample. We used metagenomic and small-subunit RNA-based sequence analysis techniques to compare the estimated richness and evenness of these groups in prairie, desert, and rainforest soils. By grouping sequences at the 97% sequence similarity level (an operational taxonomic unit [OTU]), we found that the archaeal and fungal communities were consistently less even than the bacterial communities. Although total richness levels are diffic...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and have grea...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however, bact...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and have grea...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented opportunities to furt...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...