Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

By Noah Fierer, J. Leff, B. Adams, Uffe N. Nielsen, S. Bates, C. Lauber, S. Owens, Jack A. Gilbert, D. Wall, J. Gregory Caporaso. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Soil Science

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Assembling metagenomes, one community at a time (2017, methodology): “Consequently, investigators can analyse unassembled reads [11], optimize their assembly parameters or even develop their own tools to assemble their data prior to further analysis [55].”
Soil microbiomes and climate change (2019, neutral): “Cross-biome studies have shown that the bulk soil compositions of desert soil microbial communities can be distinguished from microbiomes in other soil ecosystems 59 .”
Characterization of active and total fungal communities in the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest (2015, result): “Similar patterns have been observed in soil communities where taxonomic richness in arctic soils was significantly lower than soils from temperate and tropical ecosystems (Fierer et al., 2012).”
Soil biology for resilient, healthy soil (2015, result): “In contrast to the findings of the previous study, these researchers found strong correspondence between functional and structural diversity in soil microbial communities from globally distributed sites (Fierer et al. 2012).”
Characterization of ancient and modern genomes by SNP detection and phylogenomic and metagenomic analysis using PALEOMIX (2014, methodology): “The PALEOMIX pipeline is thus suited for various applications in molecular ecology, such as environmental microbial biodiversity monitoring 58 , dietary analysis 59 and profiling of microbes associated with a living host 60 .”
An integrated metagenomics pipeline for strain profiling reveals novel patterns of bacterial transmission and biogeography (2016, background): “2015), and soil from deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra (Fierer et al. 2012).”
The Potential of Metagenomic Approaches for Understanding Soil Microbial Processes (2014, methodology): “A few studies have used the Illumina sequencing platform for generating shotgun metagenomes from soils (Fierer et al., 2012b; Mackelprang et al., 2011), and one has combined both sequencing platforms (Uroz et al., 2013).”
Culture-independent molecular tools for soil and rhizosphere microbiology (2013, methodology): “This method has enabled the characterization of a number of microbial communities [168] and”
The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry (2019, background): “By contrast, the presence (not necessarily expression) of bacterial functional is predominantly governed by soil pH (8, 77), so that bacterial functioning largely mirrors global patterns in richness and community composition.”