Pyrosequencing the Canine Faecal Microbiota: Breadth and Depth of Biodiversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hand, Daniel ^a   Wallis, Corrin ^b   Colyer, Alison ^b   Penn, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

AGE; AMPLICON; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTEROIDES; DNA BARCODING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOG; FECES MICROFLORA; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENDER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SCHNAUZER DOG; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; FECES; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MALE; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84873187465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053115     Document Type: Article

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