Strengths and Limitations of 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing in Revealing Temporal Microbial Community Dynamics

• Rachel Poretsky ,

  * E-mail: microbe@uic.edu

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliation School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Luis M. Rodriguez-R,

  Affiliations School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Chengwei Luo,

  Affiliations School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Despina Tsementzi,

  Affiliation School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  Affiliations School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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