Figure 3: Abundances of methanotrophs associated with the emergence and resilience of high-affinity methane oxidation activity of paddy soil.
From: Conventional methanotrophs are responsible for atmospheric methane oxidation in paddy soils
(a) Changes in the pmoA2 gene copy number (pmoA2 gene-possessing methanotrophs) per gram wet weight soil (w.w.s.) as detected by qPCR. (b,c) Changes in the relative abundance of type II methanotrophs based on the Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene (b) and 16S rRNA transcript (c) amplicons. (d,e) Changes in the relative abundance of type I methanotrophs based on the Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene (d) and the 16S rRNA transcript (e) amplicons. Error bars represent 2 s.d. of the measurements from triplicate microcosms. Different letters above the columns indicate a significant difference (analysis of variance, P<0.05).
