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Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott
Patrick D. Schloss
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Sarah L. Westcott
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02810-10
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https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02810-10
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21421784

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  • Received December 1, 2010
  • Accepted March 10, 2011
  • Published online May 11, 2011.

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  1. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
  • ↵* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology & Immunology; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Phone: (734) 647-5801. Fax: (734) 764-3562. E-mail: pschloss{at}umich.edu.

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Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis
Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott
Applied and Environmental Microbiology May 2011, 77 (10) 3219-3226; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02810-10

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