Micelle PCR reduces chimera formation in 16S rRNA profiling of complex microbial DNA mixtures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Boers, Stefan A ^a   Hays, John P ^a   Jansen, Ruud ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROFLORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84941761377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14181     Document Type: Article

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