Random sampling process leads to overestimation ofβ-diversity of microbial communities

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Jizhong ^a,b,c   Jiang, Yi Huei ^b   Deng, Ye ^b   Shi, Zhou ^b   Zhou, Benjamin Yamin ^b   Xue, Kai ^b   Wu, Liyou ^b   He, Zhili ^b   Yang, Yunfeng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA DIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RANDOM SAMPLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; BIOTA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SELECTION BIAS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84879595619     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00324-13     Document Type: Article

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