ASV vs OTUs clustering: Effects on alpha, beta, and gamma diversities in microbiome metabarcoding studies

• Andrea Fasolo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment DAFNAE, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

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• Saptarathi Deb,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment DAFNAE, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

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• Piergiorgio Stevanato,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment DAFNAE, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

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• Giuseppe Concheri,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment DAFNAE, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

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• Andrea Squartini

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: squart@unipd.it

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment DAFNAE, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1961-1165

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