Editorial: New insights into microbial ecology through subtle nucleotide variation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Eren, A Murat ^a,b   Sogin, Mitchell L ^b   Maignien, Loïs ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; High resolution; Microbial ecology; Minimum entropy decomposition; Oligotyping

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EDITORIAL; ENTROPY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SUBTLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIATION;

EID: 84989162248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01318     Document Type: Editorial

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