AEM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 27 December 2013 Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.03712-13 Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Soil microbial community responses to a decade of warming as revealed by
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comparative metagenomics.
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Chengwei Luoa,b, Luis M. Rodriguez-Ra,b, Eric R. Johnstonj, Liyou Wuc, Lei Chengc, Kai
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Xuec, Qichao Tuc, Ye Dengc, Zhili Hec, Jason Zhou Shic, Mengting Maggie Yuanc,
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M. Tiedjeg, Jizhong Zhouc, h, i, #, and Konstantinos T. Konstantinidisa,b,j, #
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Rebecca A. Sherryd, Dejun Lid, Yiqi Luod, Edward A.G. Schuure, Patrick Chainf, James
Running Head: Soil community responses to a decade of warming
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Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics a, and bSchool of Biology,
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Genomics, and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma,
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of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA d; Department of Biology, University of Florida,
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USA f; Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824,
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94270, USA h; State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution
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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA b; Institute for Environmental
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Norman, OK 73019, USA c; Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University
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Gainesville, FL 32611, USA e; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545,
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USA g; Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA,
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Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China i; School of
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30332, USA j.
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#Authors for correspondence:
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Konstantinos (Kostas) Konstantinidis: 311 Ferst Drive, ES&T, Room 3224, Georgia
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Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332‐0512
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Jizhong Zhou: Institute for Environmental Genomics (IEG), Department of
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Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
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ABSTRACT
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Soil microbial communities are extremely complex, composed of thousands of low‐
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abundance species (