Choice of Pore Size Can Introduce Artefacts when Filtering Picoeukaryotes for Molecular Biodiversity Studies

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 964-968

  Sørensen, Nikolaj ^a   Daugbjerg, Niels ^a   Richardson, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT; EUKARYOTE; FILTRATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STANDARD;

ARTIFACTS; BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTA; FILTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; RHIZARIA;

EID: 84876942639     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0174-z     Document Type: Article

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