The effects of freezing on faecal microbiota as determined using miseq sequencing and culture-based investigations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Fouhy, Fiona ^a   Deane, Jennifer ^a,b   Rea, Mary C ^a,c   O'Sullivan, Órla ^a,c   Ross, R Paul ^b   O'Callaghan, Grace ^b,c,d   Plant, Barry J ^b,c,d   Stanton, Catherine ^a,c  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDACEAE; BACTEROIDETES; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FECES CULTURE; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; FREEZING; FUSOBACTERIA; HUMAN; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LEUCONOSTOC; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MISEQ SEQUENCING; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERRUCOMICROBIA; ADULT; BACTERIAL COUNT; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

FAECALIBACTERIUM; LEUCONOSTOC;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; LEUCONOSTOC; MALE; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84929119983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119355     Document Type: Article

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