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Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity

  • He Y
  • Caporaso J
  • Jiang X
  • et al.
Microbiome (2015) 3(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x
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Abstract

The operational taxonomic unit (OTU) is widely used in microbial ecology. Reproducibility in microbial ecology research depends on the reliability of OTU-based 16S ribosomal subunit RNA (rRNA) analyses.

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He, Y., Caporaso, J. G., Jiang, X.-T., Sheng, H.-F., Huse, S. M., Rideout, J. R., … Zhou, H.-W. (2015). Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity. Microbiome, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x

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