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Lineage-specific responses of microbial communities to environmental change.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2013
Youngblut Nicholas D, Shade Ashley, Read Jordan S, McMahon Katherine D, Whitaker Rachel J
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A great challenge facing microbial ecology is how to define ecologically relevant taxonomic units. To address this challenge, we investigated how changing the definition of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) influences the perception of ecological patterns in microbial communities as they respond to a dramatic environmental change. We used pyrosequenced tags of the bacterial V2 16S rRNA region, as well as clone...
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