Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: Practice, pitfalls and promises

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 4-20

  Creer, S ^a   Fonseca, V G ^a   Porazinska, D L ^b   Giblin Davis, R M ^b   Sung, W ^c   Power, D M ^d   Packer, M ^e   Carvalho, G R ^a   Blaxter, M L ^f   Lambshead, P J D ^g   Thomas, W K ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

454 environmental sequencing; Meiofaunal and eukaryotic biodiversity; Metagenetics; Metagenomics

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77951929876     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04473.x     Document Type: Article

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