Can Abundance of Protists Be Inferred from Sequence Data: A Case Study of Foraminifera

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Weber, Alexandra A T ^a,b   Pawlowski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; FORAMINIFER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTIST; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIOMASS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FORAMINIFERA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84874197057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056739     Document Type: Article

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