Phylogenetic comparisons of bacterial communities from serpentine and nonserpentine soils.

ABSTRACT: I present the results of a culture-independent survey of soil bacterial communities from serpentine soils and adjacent nonserpentine comparator soils using a variety of newly developed phylogenetically based statistical tools. The study design included site-based replication of the serpentine-to-nonserpentine community comparison over a regional scale ( approximately 100 km) in Northern California and Southern Oregon by producing 16S rRNA clone libraries from pairs of samples taken on either side of the serepentine-nonserpentine edaphic boundary at three geographical sites. At the division level, the serpentine and nonserpentine communities were similar to each other and to previous data from forest soils. Comparisons of both richness and Shannon diversity produced no significant differenc

SUBMITTER: Oline DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1636195 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature