Linking uncultivated microbial populations with benthic carbon turnover using quantitative stable isotope probing
Ömer K. Coskun, Monica Pichler and co-authors used quantitive DNA stable-isotope probing to identify the bacteria and archaea that cause most of the carbon turnover in lacustrine sediments. Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
06.07.2018
Coskun ÖK, Pichler M, Vargas S, Gilder S & Orsi WD (2018). Linking uncultivated microbial populations with benthic carbon turnover using quantitative stable isotope probing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, availble online: doi: 10.1128/AEM.01083-18.
The authors could quantify the carbon turn-over by heterotrophic microbes in lacustrine sediments. Such methods expands the understanding of the role of uncultivated microbial oragnisms in food webs.
The full text can be accessed here: http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2018/07/03/AEM.01083-18.abstract