New Insights into Microbial Ecology through Subtle Nucleotide Variation

• Main Author: A. Murat Eren (auth)
• Other Authors: Mitchell Sogin (auth), Lois Maignien (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); high-resolution; oligotyping; Minimum Entropy Decomposition; microbiome; 16S rRNA gene
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The 16S ribosomal RNA gene commonly serves as a molecular marker for investigating microbial community composition and structure. Vast amounts of 16S rRNA amplicon data generated from environmental samples thanks to the recent advances in sequencing technologies allowed microbial ecologists to explo...