Characterization of the Fecal Microbiota Using High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Stable Microbial Community during Storage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Carroll, Ian M ^a   Ringel Kulka, Tamar ^b   Siddle, Jennica P ^a   Klaenhammer, Todd R ^c   Ringel, Yehuda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FREEZING; GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE INSIGHTS INTO MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FREEZING; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867177603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046953     Document Type: Article

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