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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-297-2022
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
Kayan Ma
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
Yu Huang
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
Qi Fu
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
Yingbo Qiu
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
Jiajiang Lin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College
of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou,
350007, China
Christopher W. Schadt
Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
37831, USA
Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996, USA
Hao Chen
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen
University, Shenzhen, 518107, China
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Short summary
By analyzing and generalizing microbial taxonomic and functional profiles, we provide strong evidence that the degree of soil microbial functional redundancy differs significantly between “broad” and “narrow” functions across the globe. Future sequencing efforts will likely increase our confidence in comparative metagenomes and provide time-series information to further identify to what extent microbial functional redundancy regulates dynamic ecological fluxes across space and time.
By analyzing and generalizing microbial taxonomic and functional profiles, we provide strong...