Integrating metagenomic and amplicon databases to resolve the phylogenetic and ecological diversity of the Chlamydiae

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-125

  Lagkouvardos, Ilias ^a   Weinmaier, Thomas ^a   Lauro, Federico M ^b   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^b   Rattei, Thomas ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; amplicon sequencing; metagenomics; next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CHLAMYDIACEAE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PROTISTA; RHABDOCHLAMYDIACEAE;

EID: 84891160133     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.142     Document Type: Article

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