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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

published 18 Oct 2013

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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

published 17 Oct 2013

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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

published 16 Oct 2013

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

Marc Garcia-Garcerà, Koldo Garcia-Etxebarria, Mireia Coscollà, Amparo Latorre, Francesc Calafell

published 20 Sep 2013

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

Andrea R. Ottesen, Antonio Gonzalez, Rebecca Bell, Caroline Arce, Steven Rideout, Marc Allard, Peter Evans, Errol Strain, Steven Musser, Rob Knight, Eric Brown, James B. Pettengill

published 09 Sep 2013

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

Marianne Jacob, Thomas Soltwedel, Antje Boetius, Alban Ramette

published 02 Sep 2013

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

Juan A. Ugalde, Maria J. Gallardo, Camila Belmar, Práxedes Muñoz, Nathaly Ruiz-Tagle, Sandra Ferrada-Fuentes, Carola Espinoza, Eric E. Allen, Victor A. Gallardo

published 28 Aug 2013

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

Jonas Ghyselinck, Stefan Pfeiffer, Kim Heylen, Angela Sessitsch, Paul De Vos

published 19 Aug 2013

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

Wei Chen, Clarence K. Zhang, Yongmei Cheng, Shaowu Zhang, Hongyu Zhao

published 13 Aug 2013

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

Zohar Pasternak, Ashraf Al-Ashhab, Joao Gatica, Ron Gafny, Shlomit Avraham, Dror Minz, Osnat Gillor, Edouard Jurkevitch

published 26 Jul 2013

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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, Gary Kendrick, Carlos M. Duarte, Sophie Arnaud-Haond

published 16 Jul 2013

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Do Honeybees Shape the Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar?

Yana Aizenberg-Gershtein, Ido Izhaki, Malka Halpern

published 03 Jul 2013

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

Eric B. Alsop, Jason Raymond

published 01 Jul 2013

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