Every base matters: Assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1403-1414

  Parada, Alma E ^a   Needham, David M ^a   Fuhrman, Jed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFLORA; PLANKTON;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; EUKARYOTA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIOTA; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84952035459     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13023     Document Type: Article

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