Ecological Consistency of SSU rRNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units at a Global Scale

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Schmidt, Thomas S B ^a   Matias Rodrigues, João F ^a   von Mering, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ECOLOGY; RNA;

CLUSTER QUALITIES; CLUSTERINGS; GLOBAL SCALE; LARGE-SCALES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL TAXA; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; RRNA SEQUENCES; SCALE CHARACTERIZATION; UNIT-BASED;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL CONSISTENCY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; PHYLOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VALIDATION STUDY; ECOLOGY; GENETICS;

ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84901351613     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003594     Document Type: Article

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