51- Structure and function of the global topsoil m

51- Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.Letterhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0386-6StructureandfunctionoftheglobaltopsoilmicrobiomeMohammadBahram1,2,3,21*,FalkHildebrand4,21,SofiaK.Forslund4,16,17,JenniferL.Anderson2,NadejdaA.Soudzilovskaia5,PeterM.Bodegom5,JohanBengtsson-Palme6,7,18,StenAnslan1,8,LuisPedroCoelho4,HeleryHarend1,JaimeHuerta-Cepas4,19,MarnixH.Medema9,Miar.Maltz10,SunilMundra11,PålAxelOlsson12,MariPent1,SergeiPõlme1,ShinichiSunagawa4,20,Martinryberg2,Lehotedersoo13*&PeerBork4,14,15*SoilsharboursomeofthemostdiversemicrobiomesonEarthandareessentialforbothnutrientcyclingandcarbonstorage.Tounderstandsoilfunctioning,itisnecessarytomodeltheglobaldistributionpatternsandfunctionalgenerepertoiresofsoilmicroorganisms,aswellasthebioticandenvironmentalassociationsbetweenthediversityandstructureofbothbacterialandfungalsoilcommunities1–4.Hereweshow,byleveragingmetagenomicsandmetabarcodingofglobaltopsoilsamples(189sites,7,560subsamples),thatbacterial,butnotfungal