Sample richness and genetic diversity as drivers of chimera formation in nSSU metagenetic analyses

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Fonseca, V G ^a,b   Nichols, B ^c   Lallias, D ^a   Quince, C ^c   Carvalho, G R ^a   Power, D M ^b   Creer, S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METAGENETIC ANALYSIS; METAGENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NSSU GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84861371375     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks002     Document Type: Article

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