Evaluation of metatranscriptomic protocols and application to the study of freshwater microbial communities

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 640-655

  Tsementzi, Despina ^a   Poretsky, Rachel ^a,c   Rodriguez R, Luis M ^b   Luo, Chengwei ^b,d   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)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84913588766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12180     Document Type: Article

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