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SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 570-577Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2014.10.007
Keywords
Storage temperature; Denitrifier; Bacteria; Archaea; 16S rRNA; mRNA
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- Collaborative Research Centres program of the German Research Foundation [987]
- Max Planck Society
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Sampling strategy is important for unbiased analysis of the characteristics of microbial communities in the environment. During field work it is not always possible to analyze fresh samples immediately or store them frozen. Therefore, the effect of short-term storage temperature was investigated on the abundance and composition of bacterial, archaeal and denitrifying communities in environmental samples from two different sampling sites. Oxic forest soil and anoxic pond sediment were investigated by measuring microbial abundance (DNA) and transcriptional activity (RNA). Prior to investigating the effect of storage temperature, samples were immediately analyzed, in order to represent the original situation in the habitat. The effect of storage temperature was then determined after 11 days at different low temperatures (room temperature, 4 degrees C, -22 degrees C and -80 degrees C). Community profiling using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) showed no significant differences between the immediately analyzed reference sample and the samples stored at different incubation temperatures, both for DNA and RNA extracts. The abundance of microbial communities was determined using quantitative PCR and it also revealed a stable community size at all temperatures tested. By contrast, incubation at an elevated temperature (37 degrees C) resulted in changed bacterial community composition. In conclusion, short-term storage, even at room temperature, did not affect microbial community composition, abundance and transcriptional activity in aerated forest soil and anoxic pond sediment. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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