Extrapolation of urn models via poissonization: accurate measurements of the microbial unknown.

The availability of high-throughput parallel methods for sequencing microbial communities is increasing our knowledge of the microbial world at an unprecedented rate. Though most attention has focused on determining lower-bounds on the α-diversity i.e. the total number of different species present i...

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Main Authors: Manuel E Lladser, Raúl Gouet, Jens Reeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3125174?pdf=render