Home-made cost effective preservation buffer is a better alternative to commercial preservation methods for microbiome research

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2017, Pages

  Menke, Sebastian ^a   Gillingham, Mark A F ^a   Wilhelm, Kerstin ^a   Sommer, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buffer; Fecal samples; Freezing; Gut microbiome; Next generation sequencing; Sample preservation; Sheep; Swabs

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC SHEEP; FREEZING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE;

EID: 85011994172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00102     Document Type: Article

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