Altitude ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils of Mount Everest - Zhang, Li-Mei; Wang, Mu; Prosser, James I; Zheng, Yuan-Ming; He, Ji-Zheng (FEMS microbiology ecology, 2009)
Keywords: Abundance; alpine soil; Altitude; Ammonia; Ammonia - metabolism; Ammonia monooxygenase; ammonia oxidizer; Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; amoA gene; Archaea; Archaea - classification; Archaea - genetics; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; bacterial communities; Biodiversity; China; Cloning, Molecular; Clusters; Communities; community shift; Community structure; DNA, Archaeal - genetics; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; Ecology; Ecosystem; Environmental factors; Gene sequencing; genes; Genes, Archaeal; Genes, Bacterial; Microbiology; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira; Oxidation; Oxidizing agents; Oxidoreductases - genetics; Permafrost; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Relative abundance; Sea level; sediments; Sequence Analysis, DNA; snow; Soil - analysis; Soil bacteria; Soil Microbiology; Soils; Tibetan Plateau; topographic slope; Mount Everest; China; Tibetan Plateau; community shift; A gene; alpine soil; ammonia oxidizer; relative abundance