Assessing the microbial community and functional genes in a vertical soil profile with long-term arsenic contamination.

Arsenic (As) contamination in soil and groundwater has become a serious problem to public health. To examine how microbial communities and functional genes respond to long-term arsenic contamination in vertical soil profile, soil samples were collected from the surface to the depth of 4 m (with an i...

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Main Authors: Jinbo Xiong, Zhili He, Joy D Van Nostrand, Guosheng Luo, Shuxin Tu, Jizhong Zhou, Gejiao Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3511582?pdf=render