Estimating bacterial diversity for ecological studies: Methods, metrics, and assumptions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Birtel, Julia ^a,b   Walser, Jean Claude ^b   Pichon, Samuel ^c   Bürgmann, Helmut ^a   Matthews, Blake ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWITZERLAND; TAXONOMY; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; LAKES; MICROBIOTA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84928535581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125356     Document Type: Article

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