Surveying the microbiome of ants: Comparing 454 pyrosequencing with traditional methods to uncover bacterial diversity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 525-534

  Kautz, Stefanie ^a   Rubin, Benjamin ^a,b   Russell, Jacob ^c   Moreaua, Corrie ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 454-PYROSEQUENCING; AMPLICONS; ANT COLONIES; ANT SPECIES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BACTERIAL LINEAGES; CLONE LIBRARY; CO-EVOLUTIONARY; COST-EFFICIENT; GUT TISSUES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PYROSEQUENCING; RHIZOBIALES; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; TREE OF LIFE;

BACTERIA; CLONING; HISTOLOGY; LIBRARIES; RNA; SURVEYS;

TISSUE;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; ANT; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; EUKARYOTE; GENERATION TIME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIALES; CAMPYLOBACTERALES; CEPHALOTES; CEPHALOTES VARIANS; ENTOMOPLASMATALES; EUKARYOTA; FORMICIDAE; OTUS; RHIZOBIALES; SPIROPLASMA SP.; TESTUDINES; XANTHOMONADALES;

EID: 84871879563     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03107-12     Document Type: Article

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