Figure 1: Schematic description of experimental design and quantitation of microbial communities in microcosms based on 16S rRNA gene copy number. | Scientific Reports

Figure 1: Schematic description of experimental design and quantitation of microbial communities in microcosms based on 16S rRNA gene copy number.

From: Metagenomic and functional analyses of the consequences of reduction of bacterial diversity on soil functions and bioremediation in diesel-contaminated microcosms

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(a) Soil was serially diluted and inoculated to sterilized soil slurry microcosms subjected to metagenomic analysis and experiments. (b) Copy number of the 16S rRNA gene in the 10−2-inoculated samples and (c) 10−5-inoculated samples. C, control; D, diesel-spiked soil; DR, diesel-spiked soil and red clay; DP, diesel-spiked soil and processed red clay.

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