Employing 454 amplicon pyrosequencing to reveal intragenomic divergence in the internal transcribed spacer rDNA region in fungi

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1751-1764

  Lindner, Daniel L ^a   Carlsen, Tor ^b   Henrik Nilsson, R ^c   Davey, Marie ^b,d   Schumacher, Trond ^b   Kauserud, Håvard ^b  

^a Center for Forest Mycology Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Environmental sequencing; Operational taxonomic units; Pyrosequencing; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885642542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.586     Document Type: Article

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