Abstract:Heavy metal pollution poses a serious threat to soil, water, and the atmospheric environment. Many microbes sustain and respond to the metal stress, and the mechanisms involved in these processes remain unclear. The metagenomics and metatranscriptomics approaches were applied to study the structure and function of eukaryotic microbial communities in heavy metal-contaminated soils of two geographic locations situated in different climatic regions. To achieve this, amplicons of the hypervariable V4 region of 18S… Show more
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