Effects of experimental choices and analysis noise on surveys of the "Rare Biosphere"

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3263-3270

  Hamp, Timothy J ^a   Jones, W Joe ^b   Fodor, Anthony A ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BEST MATCH; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NAIVE BAYESIAN ALGORITHMS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR APPROACHES; NORTH CAROLINA; PCR PRODUCTS; PRIMER SETS; PYROSEQUENCING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WHOLE-GENOME SHOTGUN;

BIOSPHERICS; SURVEYS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

GENES;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOSPHERE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; RNA; TAXONOMY; WASTEWATER;

ANALYSIS NOISE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSPHERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAMILIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA GENE; SAMPLE; SLUDGE; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH CAROLINA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 66249114350     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01931-08     Document Type: Article

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