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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Washburne AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5345826 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
PeerJ 20170209
Marker gene sequencing of microbial communities has generated big datasets of microbial relative abundances varying across environmental conditions, sample sites and treatments. These data often come with putative phylogenies, providing unique opportunities to investigate how shared evolutionary history affects microbial abundance patterns. Here, we present a method to identify the phylogenetic factors driving patterns in microbial community composition. We use the method, "phylofactorization," ...[more]