Strengths and limitations of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing in revealing temporal microbial community dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Poretsky, Rachel ^a,c   Rodriguez R, Luis M ^b   Luo, Chengwei ^b   Tsementzi, Despina ^a   Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; FRESH WATER;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA GENE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; BACTERIA; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANKTON; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; FRESH WATER; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84899535363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093827     Document Type: Article

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