@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {10896},
      author = {Sangwan, Naseer and Lata, Pushp and Dwivedi, Vatsala and  Singh, Amit and Niharika, Neha and Kaur, Jasvinder and  Anand, Shailly and Malhotra, Jaya and Jindal, Swati and  Nigam, Aeshna and Lal, Devi and Dua, Ankita and Saxena,  Anjali and Garg, Nidhi and Verma, Mansi and Kaur, Jaspreet  and Mukherjee, Udita and Gilbert, Jack A. and Dowd, Scot E.  and Raman, Rajagopal and Khurana, Paramjit and Khurana,  Jitendra P. and Lal, Rup},
      title = {Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Soil Microbial  Communities across Three Hexachlorocyclohexane  Contamination Levels},
      journal = {PLOS ONE},
      address = {2012-09-28},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {This paper presents the characterization of the microbial  community responsible for the in-situ bioremediation of  hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH). Microbial community structure  and function was analyzed using 16S rRNA amplicon and  shotgun metagenomic sequencing methods for three sets of  soil samples. The three samples were collected from a  HCH-dumpsite (450 mg HCH/g soil) and comprised of a  HCH/soil ratio of 0.45, 0.0007, and 0.00003, respectively.  Certain bacterial; (Chromohalobacter, Marinimicrobium,  Idiomarina, Salinosphaera, Halomonas, Sphingopyxis,  Novosphingobium, Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas), archaeal;  (Halobacterium, Haloarcula and Halorhabdus) and fungal  (Fusarium) genera were found to be more abundant in the  soil sample from the HCH-dumpsite. Consistent with the  phylogenetic shift, the dumpsite also exhibited a  relatively higher abundance of genes coding for  chemotaxis/motility, chloroaromatic and HCH degradation  (lin genes). Reassembly of a draft pangenome of  Chromohalobacter salaxigenes sp. (~8X coverage) and 3  plasmids (pISP3, pISP4 and pLB1; 13X coverage) containing  lin genes/clusters also provides an evidence for the  horizontal transfer of HCH catabolism genes.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/10896},
}