Bacterial and Eukaryotic Small-Subunit Amplicon Data Do Not Provide a Quantitative Picture of Microbial Communities, but They Are Reliable in the Context of Ecological Interpretations

ABSTRACT High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of gene amplicons is a preferred method of assessing microbial community composition, because it rapidly provides information from a large number of samples at high taxonomic resolution and low costs. However, mock community studies show that HTS data poorly...

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Main Authors: Kasia Piwosz, Tanja Shabarova, Jakob Pernthaler, Thomas Posch, Karel Šimek, Petr Porcal, Michaela M. Salcher
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/d5af1d57525746b3b8280c7880ab35dd
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