Bacterial and Archaea Community Present in the Pine Barrens Forest of Long Island, NY: Unusually High Percentage of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria

• Vishal Shah ,

  * E-mail: ShahV@dowling.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, United States of America

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• Shreya Shah,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, United States of America

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• Murty S. Kambhampati,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Southern University at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Jeffery Ambrose,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Southern University at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Nyesha Smith,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Southern University at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Scot E. Dowd,

  Affiliation Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• Kevin T. McDonnell,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, United States of America

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• Bishnu Panigrahi,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, United States of America

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• Timothy Green

  Affiliation Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

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