Abundance-weighted phylogenetic diversity measures distinguish microbial community states and are robust to sampling depth

In microbial ecology studies, the most commonly used ways of investigating alpha (within-sample) diversity are either to apply non-phylogenetic measures such as Simpson’s index to Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) groupings, or to use classical phylogenetic diversity (PD), which is not abundance-weig...

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Main Authors: Connor O. McCoy, Frederick A. Matsen IV
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2013-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/157.pdf