Daring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units

Abstract Background Microorganisms are not only indispensable to ecosystem functioning, they are also keystones for emerging technologies. In the last 15 years, the number of studies on environmental microbial communities has increased exponentially due to advances in sequencing technologies, but th...

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Main Authors: Lisa Joos, Stien Beirinckx, Annelies Haegeman, Jane Debode, Bart Vandecasteele, Steve Baeyen, Sofie Goormachtig, Lieven Clement, Caroline De Tender
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
OTU
ASV
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-020-07126-4