NDLI: Distribution of Extensive nifH Gene Diversity Across Physical Soil Microenvironments

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Author	Izquierdo, Javier A. Nüsslein, Klaus
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria is well described for aquatic environments; however, terrestrial analyses remain mostly biased to rhizobial plant–microbe associations. We maximized the level of resolution for this study through the use of nucleotide sequence information extracted from a series of soil microenvironments, ranging from macroaggregates at 2000 μm to the clay fraction at <75 μm in diameter. In addition, we attempted to create an overview of the distribution of terrestrial nitrogen fixers across such microenvironments by combining culture-independent techniques with a suite of natural soil environments from uniquely different origins. Soil diazotroph diversity was analyzed phylogenetically for 600 terrestrial nifH sequences from 12 midsized clone libraries based on microenvironments of three separate soils across a global scale. Statistical analyses of nifH gene clone libraries were used to estimate coverage, establish degrees of sequence overlap, and compare cluster distributions. These analyses revealed an extensive diversity in a tropical (19 phylotypes) and an arctic soil (17 phylotypes), and moderate diversity in a temperate soil (11 phylotypes). Within each soil, comparisons across aggregate size fractions delineated nifH gene cluster shifts within populations and degrees of sequence overlap that ranged from significantly different (arctic, tropical) to significantly similar (temperate). We suggest that this is due to population separation across aggregates of different size classes, which results from differences in the temporal stability of aggregates as niches for microbial communities. This study not only provides new knowledge of the arrangement of diazotrophic communities at the soil microscale, but it also contributes to the underrepresented knowledge of soil nifH sequences in the public databases.
Starting Page	441
Ending Page	452
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00953628
Journal	Microbial Ecology
Volume Number	51
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1432184X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2006-04-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Nature Conservation Geoecology/Natural Processes Microbiology Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Soil Science Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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