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SUBMITTER: Rosselli R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5006002 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rosselli Riccardo R Romoli Ottavia O Vitulo Nicola N Vezzi Alessandro A Campanaro Stefano S de Pascale Fabio F Schiavon Riccardo R Tiarca Maurizio M Poletto Fabio F Concheri Giuseppe G Valle Giorgio G Squartini Andrea A
Scientific reports 20160831
The analysis of environmental microbial communities has largely relied on a PCR-dependent amplification of genes entailing species identity as 16S rRNA. This approach is susceptible to biases depending on the level of primer matching in different species. Moreover, possible yet-to-discover taxa whose rRNA could differ enough from known ones would not be revealed. DNA-based methods moreover do not provide information on the actual physiological relevance of each taxon within an environment and ar ...[more]