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Title: Land-use systems affect Archaeal community structure and functional diversity in western Amazon soils
Other Titles: Sistemas de uso da terra afetam a estrutura de comunidade e a diversidade funcional de Archaea em solos da Amazônia ocidental
Keywords: Soil microbial ecology
Microbial diversity
Tropical soils
Ecologia microbiana do solo
Diversidade microbiana
Solos tropicais
Issue Date: Sep-2011
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
Citation: NAVARRETE, A. A. et al. Land-use systems affect Archaeal community structure and functional diversity in western Amazon soils. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, Viçosa, MG, v. 35, n. 5, p. 1527-1540, Sept./Oct. 2011.
Abstract: The study of the ecology of soil microbial communities at relevant spatial scales is primordial in the wide Amazon region due to the current land use changes. In this study, the diversity of the Archaea domain (community structure) and ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (richness and community composition) were investigated using molecular biology-based techniques in different land-use systems in western Amazonia, Brazil. Soil samples were collected in two periods with high precipitation (March 2008 and January 2009) from Inceptisols under primary tropical rainforest, secondary forest (5-20 year old), agricultural systems of indigenous people and cattle pasture. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified DNA (PCR-DGGE) using the 16S rRNA gene as a biomarker showed that archaeal community structures in crops and pasture soils are different from those in primary forest soil, which is more similar to the community structure in secondary forest soil. Sequence analysis of excised DGGE bands indicated the presence of crenarchaeal and euryarchaeal organisms. Based on clone library analysis of the gene coding the subunit of the enzyme ammonia monooxygenase (amoA) of Archaea (306 sequences), the Shannon-Wiener function and Simpson's index showed a greater ammonia-oxidizing archaeal diversity in primary forest soils (H' = 2.1486; D = 0.1366), followed by a lower diversity in soils under pasture (H' = 1.9629; D = 0.1715), crops (H' = 1.4613; D = 0.3309) and secondary forest (H' = 0.8633; D = 0.5405). All cloned inserts were similar to the Crenarchaeota amoA gene clones (identity > 95 %) previously found in soils and sediments and distributed primarily in three major phylogenetic clusters. The findings indicate that agricultural systems of indigenous people and cattle pasture affect the archaeal community structure and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea in western Amazon soils.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/28856
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