Schrödinger's microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

Microbiome

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 86-

  Emerson, Joanne B ^a,b   Adams, Rachel I ^a   Román, Clarisse M Betancourt ^a,b   Brooks, Brandon ^a   Coil, David A ^a   Dahlhausen, Katherine ^a   Ganz, Holly H ^a   Hartmann, Erica M ^a   Hsu, Tiffany ^b   Justice, Nicholas B ^b   Paulino Lima, Ivan G ^a   Luongo, Julia C ^a   Lymperopoulou, Despoina S ^a   Gomez Silvan, Cinta ^a,b   Rothschild Mancinelli, Brooke ^a   Balk, Melike ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b   Nocker, Andreas ^a   Vaishampayan, Parag ^a   Rothschild, Lynn J ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Flow cytometry; Infectivity; Live dead; Low biomass; Metagenomics; Microbial ecology; PMA; qPCR; RNA; Viability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85033476334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0285-3     Document Type: Review

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