Investigating microbial eukaryotic diversity from a global census: Insights from a comparison of pyrotag and full-length sequences of 18S rRNA genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4363-4373

  Lie, Alle A Y ^a   Liu, Zhenfeng ^a   Hu, Sarah K ^a   Jones, Adriane C ^a   Kim, Diane Y ^a   Countway, Peter D ^b   Amaral Zettler, Linda A ^c,d   Cary, S Craig ^e,h   Sherr, Evelyn B ^f   Sherr, Barry F ^f   Gast, Rebecca J ^g   Caron, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; RNA;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEXT-GENERATION DNA SEQUENCING; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PROTISTAN COMMUNITIES; RAPID TRANSITIONS; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION;

GENES;

DATA SET; EUKARYOTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROTIST; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EUKARYOTA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84903146731     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00057-14     Document Type: Article

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