Introducing DOTUR, a computer program for defining operational taxonomic units and estimating species richness

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1501-1506

  Schloss, Patrick D ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BACTERIAL LINEAGES; DOTUR; GENETIC DISTANCES; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT (OTU);

BIODIVERSITY;

RNA 16S;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOFTWARE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOTUR; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SOFTWARE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; OCEANIC REGIONS; SARGASSO SEA; SCOTLAND; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 15444362001     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.3.1501-1506.2005     Document Type: Article

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