Ecological roles of dominant and rare prokaryotes in acid mine drainage revealed by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 1280 - 1294
• Main Authors: Hua, Zheng-Shuang, Han, Yu-Jiao, Chen, Lin-Xing, Liu, Jun, Hu, Min, Li, Sheng-Jin, Kuang, Jia-Liang, Chain, Patrick SG, Huang, Li-Nan, Shu, Wen-Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2015; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/208/212/2142; 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/325; 631/326/47; Acid mine drainage; Acids; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Betaproteobacteria - genetics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carbon; Ecology; Energy conservation; Environmental Pollutants - chemistry; Environmental stress; Evolutionary Biology; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation; Genome; Heavy metals; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Life Sciences; Metagenomics; Metals, Heavy - chemistry; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Mining; Nitrogen Fixation; Original; original-article; Oxidation; Oxidative Stress; Rare species; Relative abundance; Sulfur; Sulfur - chemistry; Taxa; Transcriptome

High-throughput sequencing is expanding our knowledge of microbial diversity in the environment. Still, understanding the metabolic potentials and ecological roles of rare and uncultured microbes in natural communities remains a major challenge. To this end, we applied a ‘divide and conquer’ strateg...