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Reconciliation between operational taxonomic units and species boundaries.

FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Apr 2017

Mysara Mohamed, Vandamme Peter, Props Ruben, Kerckhof Frederiek-Maarten, Leys Natalie, Boon Nico, Raes Jeroen, Monsieurs Pieter

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The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has revolutionised the field of microbial ecology via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing approaches. Clustering those amplicon sequencing reads into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using a fixed cut-off is a commonly used approach to estimate microbial diversity. A 97% threshold was chosen with the intended purpose that resulting OTUs could be...

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PMID: 28334218
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix029
PMCID: PMC5812548

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