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Composition of soil microbiome along elevation gradients in southwestern highlands of Saudi Arabia

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Title
Composition of soil microbiome along elevation gradients in southwestern highlands of Saudi Arabia
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BMC Microbiology, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12866-015-0398-4
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Muhammad Yasir, Esam I Azhar, Imran Khan, Fehmida Bibi, Rnda Baabdullah, Ibrahim A Al-Zahrani, Ahmed K Al-Ghamdi

Abstract

Saudi Arabia is mostly barren except the southwestern highlands that are susceptible to environmental changes, a hotspot for biodiversity, but poorly studied for microbial diversity and composition. In this study, 454-pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene hypervariable region V6 was used to analyze soil bacterial community along elevation gradients of the southwestern highlands. In general, lower percentage of total soil organic matter (SOM) and nitrogen were detected in the analyzed soil samples. Total 33 different phyla were identified across the samples, including dominant phyla Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria. Representative OTUs were grouped into 329 and 508 different taxa at family and genus level taxonomic classification, respectively. The identified OTUs unique to each sample were very low irrespective of the altitude. Jackknifed principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) revealed, overall differences in the bacterial community were more related to the quantity of specific OTUs than to their diversity among the studied samples. Bacterial diversity and soil physicochemical properties did not show consistent changes along the elevation gradients. The large number of OTUs shared between the studied samples suggest the presence of a core soil bacterial community in the southwestern highlands of Saudi Arabia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
China 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Saudi Arabia 1 1%
Unknown 71 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 29%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Master 9 12%
Other 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Other 16 21%
Unknown 9 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 16%
Environmental Science 7 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 10 13%
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