Diversity measures in environmental sequences are highly dependent on alignment quality-data from ITS and new LSU primers targeting basidiomycetes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Krüger, Dirk ^a   Kapturska, Danuta ^a,b   Fischer, Christiane ^c   Daniel, Rolf ^c   Wubet, Tesfaye ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 28S; FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTROPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STANDARD;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, LARGE, EUKARYOTIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84857438893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032139     Document Type: Article

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