Assessing effects of earthworm cast on methanotrophic community in a soil biocover by concurrent use of microarray and quantitative real-time PCR

Agriculture & Biology

• worm casts 100%
• quantitative polymerase chain reaction 50%
• soil 32%
• methanotrophs 25%
• community structure 17%
• Methylobacter 16%
• population density 8%
• principal component analysis 7%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Oligochaeta 95%
• Soil 68%
• Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction 50%
• Population Density 10%
• Principal Component Analysis 9%
• Population 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• earthworm 72%
• soil 27%
• community structure 15%
• effect 14%
• population density 8%
• principal component analysis 7%
• fold 6%
• material 3%