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Microbial taxonomy

Two New Computational Methods for Universal DNA Barcoding: A Benchmark Using Barcode Sequences of Bacteria, Archaea, Animals, Fungi, and Land Plants

Akifumi S. Tanabe, Hirokazu Toju

Systematic Identification of Gene Families for Use as “Markers” for Phylogenetic and Phylogeny-Driven Ecological Studies of Bacteria and Archaea and Their Major Subgroups

Dongying Wu, Guillaume Jospin, Jonathan A. Eisen

Taxonomic Precision of Different Hypervariable Regions of 16S rRNA Gene and Annotation Methods for Functional Bacterial Groups in Biological Wastewater Treatment

Feng Guo, Feng Ju, Lin Cai, Tong Zhang

A New Method for Extracting Skin Microbes Allows Metagenomic Analysis of Whole-Deep Skin

Marc Garcia-Garcerà, Koldo Garcia-Etxebarria, [ ... ], Francesc Calafell

Co-Enriching Microflora Associated with Culture Based Methods to Detect Salmonella from Tomato Phyllosphere

Andrea R. Ottesen, Antonio Gonzalez, [ ... ], James B. Pettengill

Biogeography of Deep-Sea Benthic Bacteria at Regional Scale (LTER HAUSGARTEN, Fram Strait, Arctic)

Marianne Jacob, Thomas Soltwedel, Antje Boetius, Alban Ramette

Microbial Life in a Fjord: Metagenomic Analysis of a Microbial Mat in Chilean Patagonia

Juan A. Ugalde, Maria J. Gallardo, [ ... ], Victor A. Gallardo

The Effect of Primer Choice and Short Read Sequences on the Outcome of 16S rRNA Gene Based Diversity Studies

Jonas Ghyselinck, Stefan Pfeiffer, [ ... ], Paul De Vos

A Comparison of Methods for Clustering 16S rRNA Sequences into OTUs

Wei Chen, Clarence K. Zhang, [ ... ], Hongyu Zhao

Spatial and Temporal Biogeography of Soil Microbial Communities in Arid and Semiarid Regions

Zohar Pasternak, Ashraf Al-Ashhab, [ ... ], Edouard Jurkevitch

Invasion Is a Community Affair: Clandestine Followers in the Bacterial Community Associated to Green Algae, Caulerpa racemosa, Track the Invasion Source

Tania Aires, Ester A. Serrão, [ ... ], Sophie Arnaud-Haond

Do Honeybees Shape the Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar?

Yana Aizenberg-Gershtein, Ido Izhaki, Malka Halpern

Resolving Prokaryotic Taxonomy without rRNA: Longer Oligonucleotide Word Lengths Improve Genome and Metagenome Taxonomic Classification

Eric B. Alsop, Jason Raymond

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