Prokaryotic communities of acidic peatlands from the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
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SUBMITTER: Etto RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3768831 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
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Prokaryotic communities of acidic peatlands from the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Etto R M RM Cruz L M LM Jesus E C EC Galvão C W CW Galvão F F Souza E M EM Pedrosa F O FO Steffens M B R MB
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20120401 2
The acidic peatlands of southern Brazil are ecosystems essential for the maintenance of the Atlantic Forest, one of the 25 hot-spots of biodiversity in the world. In this work, we investigated the composition of prokaryotic communities in four histosols of three acidic peatland regions by constructing small-subunit (SSU) rRNA gene libraries and sequencing. SSU rRNA gene sequence analysis showed the prevalence of Acidobacteria (38.8%) and Proteobacteria (27.4%) of the Bacteria domain and Miscella ...[more]
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