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SUBMITTER: Schloss PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1610290 | biostudies-other | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Schloss Patrick D PD Handelsman Jo J
Applied and environmental microbiology 20061001 10
The recent advent of tools enabling statistical inferences to be drawn from comparisons of microbial communities has enabled the focus of microbial ecology to move from characterizing biodiversity to describing the distribution of that biodiversity. Although statistical tools have been developed to compare community structures across a phylogenetic tree, we lack tools to compare the memberships and structures of two communities at a particular operational taxonomic unit (OTU) definition. Further ...[more]