Individuality and temporal stability of the human gut microbiome

• Main Authors: Shinichi Sunagawa (Author), Siegfried Schloissnig (Author), Manimozhiyan Arumugam (Author), Kristoffer Forslund (Author), Makedonka Mitreva (Author), Julien Tap (Author), Ana Zhu (Author), Alison Waller (Author), Daniel R. Mende (Author), Jens Roat Kultima (Author), John Martin (Author), Karthik Kota (Author), Shamil R. Sunyaev (Author), Athanasios Typas (Author), George M. Weinstock (Author), Peer Bork (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: The breakthrough of next generation sequencing-technologies has enabled large-scale studies of natural microbial communities and the 16S rRNA genes have been widely used as a phylogenetic marker to study community structure. However, major limitations of this approach are that neither...