%0 Journal Article %T Microbial diversity of soils on the banks of the Solim£¿es and Negro rivers, state of Amazonas, Brazil %A Santos %A Ellen Karla Nobre dos %A Honda %A Rubens Tomio %A Nozawa %A S¨¦rgio Ricardo %A Ferreira-Nozawa %A Monica Stropa %J Genetics and Molecular Biology %D 2012 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Gen¨¦tica %R 10.1590/S1415-47572012005000014 %X analysis of bacterial diversity in soils along the banks of the solim£¿es and negro rivers, state of amazonas, brazil, was by partial sequencing of the genes codifying the rdna16s region. diversity of operational taxonomic units (otu) and of the divergent sequences obtained were applied in comparative analysis of microbiological diversity in the two environments, based on richness estimators and otu diversity indices. the higher otu diversity in the solim£¿es was based on the higher number of parameters that evoke this. the interaction between the nucleotide sequences of bacteria inhabiting the two riverine environments indicated that the two microrganism communities are similar in composition. %K microbiological diversity %K tropical soil biodiversity %K 16s rdna gene %K amazon %K molecular biology. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1415-47572012000100019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en