Metagenomic approaches in microbial ecology: an update on whole-genome and marker gene sequencing analyses

AE Pérez-Cobas, L Gomez-Valero… - Microbial …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Metagenomics and marker gene approaches, coupled with high-throughput sequencing
technologies, have revolutionized the field of microbial ecology. Metagenomics is a culture …

Review and re-analysis of domain-specific 16S primers

GC Baker, JJ Smith, DA Cowan - Journal of microbiological methods, 2003 - Elsevier
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has facilitated the detection of unculturable
microorganisms in virtually any environmental source and has thus been used extensively in …

Development of a Prokaryotic Universal Primer for Simultaneous Analysis of Bacteria and Archaea Using Next-Generation Sequencing

S Takahashi, J Tomita, K Nishioka, T Hisada… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
For the analysis of microbial community structure based on 16S rDNA sequence diversity,
sensitive and robust PCR amplification of 16S rDNA is a critical step. To obtain accurate …

Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

D Berry, S Widder - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Co-occurrence networks produced from microbial survey sequencing data are frequently
used to identify interactions between community members. While this approach has …

The variability of the 16S rRNA gene in bacterial genomes and its consequences for bacterial community analyses

T Větrovský, P Baldrian - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
16S ribosomal RNA currently represents the most important target of study in bacterial
ecology. Its use for the description of bacterial diversity is, however, limited by the presence …

The choice of universal primers and the characteristics of the species mixture determine when DNA metabarcoding can be quantitative

J Piñol, MA Senar, WOC Symondson - Molecular ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is a technique used to survey biodiversity in many ecological settings,
but there are doubts about whether it can provide quantitative results, that is, the proportions …

[图书][B] Experimental methods in wastewater treatment

MCM van Loosdrecht, PH Nielsen, CM Lopez-Vazquez… - 2016 - books.google.com
Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has
advanced extensively and moved away from empirically based approaches to a …

Incorporating 16S gene copy number information improves estimates of microbial diversity and abundance

SW Kembel, M Wu, JA Eisen… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The abundance of different SSU rRNA (“16S”) gene sequences in environmental samples is
widely used in studies of microbial ecology as a measure of microbial community structure …

Evaluation of methods for the extraction and purification of DNA from the human microbiome

S Yuan, DB Cohen, J Ravel, Z Abdo, LJ Forney - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background DNA extraction is an essential step in all cultivation-independent approaches to
characterize microbial diversity, including that associated with the human body. A …

Determination of bacterial load by real-time PCR using a broad-range (universal) probe and primers set

MA Nadkarni, FE Martin, NA Jacques… - …, 2002 - microbiologyresearch.org
The design and evaluation of a set of universal primers and probe for the amplification of
16S rDNA from the Domain Bacteria to estimate total bacterial load by real-time PCR is …