Profiling the Functional Diversity of Termite Mound Soil Bacteria as Revealed by Shotgun Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Profiling the metabolic processes performed by bacteria is vital both for understanding and for manipulating ecosystems for industrial or research purposes. In this study we aim to assess the bacterial functional diversity in termite mound soils with the assumption that significant differences will be observed in the functional diversity of bacteria between the termite mound soils and their surrounding soils and that each environment has a distinguishing metabolic profile. Here, metagenomic DNA extracted from termite mound soils and their corresponding surrounding soils, which are 10 m apart, were sequenced using a shotgun sequencing approach. Our results revealed that the relative abundances of 16 functional categories differed significantly between both habitats. The α diversity analysis

SUBMITTER: Enagbonma BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6770954 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature