Improving soil bacterial taxa-area relationships assessment using DNA meta-barcoding.

ABSTRACT: The evaluation of the taxa-area relationship (TAR) with molecular fingerprinting data demonstrated the spatial structuration of soil microorganisms and provided insights into the processes shaping their diversity. The increasing use of massive sequencing technologies in biodiversity investigations has now raised the question of the advantages of such technologies over the fingerprinting approach for elucidation of the determinism of soil microbial community assembly in broad-scale biogeographic studies. Our objectives in this study were to compare DNA fingerprinting and meta-barcoding approaches for evaluating soil bacterial TAR and the determinism of soil bacterial community assembly on a broad scale. This comparison was performed on 392 soil samples from four French geographic regions wi

SUBMITTER: Terrat S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4815512 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature