DNA Extraction Method Plays a Significant Role When Defining Bacterial Community Composition in the Marine Invertebrate Echinometra mathaei

The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, we are now able to characterize bacteria that were no...

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Main Authors: Remi N. Ketchum, Edward G. Smith, Grace O. Vaughan, Britney L. Phippen, Dain McParland, Noura Al-Mansoori, Tyler J. Carrier, John A. Burt, Adam M. Reitzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00255/full