The Microbial Gene Diversity along an Elevation Gradient of the Tibetan alpine meadow

ABSTRACT: Tibet is one of the most threatened regions by climate warming, thus understanding how its microbial communities function may be of high importance for predicting microbial responses to climate changes. Here, we report a study to profile soil microbial structural genes, which infers functional roles of microbial communities, aiming to explore potential microbial responses to climate changes via a strategy of space-for-time substitution. Using a microarray-based metagenomics tool named GeoChip 4.0, we showed that microbial communities were distinct for most but not all of the sites. Substantial variations were apparent in stress, N and C cycling genes, but they were in line with the functional roles of these genes. sixty-three samples were collected from four elevations (3200,3400,3600 and

ORGANISM(S): uncultured bacterium

SUBMITTER: Yunfeng Yang 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-52425 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress