Members of the phylum Acidobacteria have been found in soils worldwide, and their sheer numbers suggest that they play ecologically significant roles though as yet undetermined in the soil environment. To better understanding the contributions of these bacteria to the terrestrial carbon cycle, as well as expand the Genome Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea, several strains from soil bacterial communities will be sequenced as part of this project.
Principal Investigators: Stephanie Eichorst, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Program: CSP 2011