The frozen samples from series D of batch e previously incubated at 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, and 26 °C were homogenized separately with mortar and pestle in liquid nitrogen. Coextraction of RNA and DNA from peat soil was performed as previously described (20 (link)). Briefly, a cetrimonium bromide-containing lysis buffer and phenol:chloroform:isoamylalcohol (25:24:1) were added to all peat samples in lysis matrix E tubes (MP Biomedicals) containing silica beads and exposed to 30 s of vigorous shaking in a FastPrep machine (MP Biomedicals) for the extraction of nucleic acids. After PEG precipitation, ethanol washing and dissolution of pellets in nuclease-free water, nucleic acids were treated with DNase or RNase before metatranscriptome and metagenome generation, respectively. Total RNA was amplified using the MessageAmp II-Bacteria Kit (Ambion Life Technologies) following the kit protocol, except that the linear amplification step was carried out for 14 h. Paired-end 101-bp reads were sequenced using the Illumina HighSeq2000 sequencer (Illumina) at the Norwegian Sequencing Centre (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway).