A metagenomic framework for the study of airborne microbial communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Yooseph, Shibu ^a   Andrews Pfannkoch, Cynthia ^a,b   Tenney, Aaron ^a   McQuaid, Jeff ^a   Williamson, Shannon ^a,c   Thiagarajan, Mathangi ^a,d   Brami, Daniel ^a,e   Zeigler Allen, Lisa ^a   Hoffman, Jeff ^a   Goll, Johannes B ^a,f   Fadrosh, Douglas ^a,g   Glass, John ^a   Adams, Mark D ^a   Friedman, Robert ^a   Venter, J Craig ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper ^*

^c Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper   (United States)

^d FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

^f EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

AIR; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE MICROORGANISM; AMBIENT AIR; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OUTDOOR AIR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; URBAN AREA; VIRUS FORMS;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, RRNA; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84892572886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081862     Document Type: Article

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