Reproducibility of pyrosequencing data for biodiversity assessment in complex communities

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 881-890

  Zhan, Aibin ^a,b   He, Song ^a,e   Brown, Emily A ^c   Chain, Frédéric J J ^c   Therriault, Thomas W ^d   Abbott, Cathryn L ^d   Heath, Daniel D ^b   Cristescu, Melania E ^b,c   MacIsaac, Hugh J ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; community ecology; nuclear small subunit (nSSU) rDNA (18S); plankton; diversity; diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924186438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12230     Document Type: Article

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