Interpreting ecological diversity indices applied to terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism data: Insights from Simulated Microbial Communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5276-5283

  Blackwood, Christopher B ^a,b,c   Hudleston, Deborah ^b   Zak, Donald R ^b   Buyer, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMORPHISM;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT (TRF);

BIODIVERSITY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODELING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHANNON DIVERSITY; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 34548235824     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00514-07     Document Type: Article

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