uncultured prokaryote Targeted Locus (Loci). uncultured prokaryote

We estimated the dormancy of individual taxa from the recovery of 16S rRNA transcripts of metabolically active bacteria and 16S rRNA genes of all potentially active bacteria in five freshwater and five hypersaline lakes across the Western United States. We employed two different measurements of dormancy: the percentage of bacterial taxa exhibiting dormancy in each lake and the total relative recovery represented by these dormant taxa within the community. We related our dormancy metrics to a suite of chemical characteristics including dissolved O2, pH, salinity, total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP), and temperature.