Abundance-weighted phylogenetic diversity measures distinguish microbial community states and are robust to sampling depth

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McCoy, Connor O ^a   Matsen, Frederick A ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Diversity indices; Human microbiome; Microbial ecology; Phylogenetic diversity

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERFORMANCE; PERIODONTITIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAGINITIS;

EID: 84885148679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.157     Document Type: Article

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