Unravelling the Carbon and Sulphur Metabolism in Coastal Soil Ecosystems Using Comparative Cultivation-Independent Genome-Level Characterisation of Microbial Communities

Basit Yousuf; Raghawendra Kumar; Avinash Mishra; Bhavanath Jha

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107025

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Unravelling the Carbon and Sulphur Metabolism in Coastal Soil Ecosystems Using Comparative Cultivation-Independent Genome-Level Characterisation of Microbial Communities

Basit Yousuf,

Affiliations Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR, New Delhi, India
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Raghawendra Kumar,

Affiliations Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR, New Delhi, India
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Avinash Mishra ,

* E-mail: avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliations Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR, New Delhi, India
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Bhavanath Jha

* E-mail: avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Affiliations Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR, New Delhi, India
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Unravelling the Carbon and Sulphur Metabolism in Coastal Soil Ecosystems Using Comparative Cultivation-Independent Genome-Level Characterisation of Microbial Communities

Basit Yousuf,
Raghawendra Kumar,
Avinash Mishra,
Bhavanath Jha

Published: September 16, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107025

About the Authors

Basit Yousuf

Affiliations Discipline of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR, New Delhi, India

Raghawendra Kumar

Avinash Mishra

* E-mail: avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Bhavanath Jha

* E-mail: avinash@csmcri.org (AM); bjha@csmcri.org (BJ)

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BY AM BJ. Performed the experiments: BY RK. Analyzed the data: BY AM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BY AM.

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