Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study

Redescription of Rhizodomus tagatzi (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea: Tintinnida), Based on Morphology and Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence

(2012) Alessandro Saccà et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Phylogeny of Tintinnid Ciliates (Tintinnida, Ciliophora)

(2012) Charles Bachy et al.   PROTIST

Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

(2011) Christopher Quince et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

WebMGA: a customizable web server for fast metagenomic sequence analysis

(2011) Sitao Wu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Massively parallel rRNA gene sequencing exacerbates the potential for biased community diversity comparisons due to variable library sizes

(2011) Thomas M. Gihring et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Protistan microbial observatory in the Cariaco Basin, Caribbean. I. Pyrosequencing vs Sanger insights into species richness

(2011) Virginia Edgcomb et al.   ISME Journal

Metagenetic community analysis of microbial eukaryotes illuminates biogeographic patterns in deep-sea and shallow water sediments

(2011) HOLLY M. BIK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Two decades of describing the unseen majority of aquatic microbial diversity

(2011) LUCIE ZINGER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity and Vertical Distribution of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Snow, Sea Ice and Seawater Near the North Pole at the End of the Polar Night

(2011) Charles Bachy et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness

(2010) Anna Engelbrektson et al.   ISME Journal

Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

(2010) THORSTEN STOECK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity in a hidden world: potential and limitation of next-generation sequencing for surveys of molecular diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms

(2010) RALPH MEDINGER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

(2010) Leho Tedersoo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology

(2009) D. A. Caron et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of PCR amplicon size on assessments of clone library microbial diversity and community structure

(2009) Julie A. Huber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community structure in the North Pacific ocean

(2009) Mark V Brown et al.   ISME Journal

Dynamics of core and occasional species in the marine plankton: tintinnid ciliates in the north-west Mediterranean Sea

(2009) John R. Dolan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The 'rare biosphere': a reality check

(2009) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

(2009) Christopher Quince et al.   NATURE METHODS

ESPRIT: estimating species richness using large collections of 16S rRNA pyrosequences

(2009) Yijun Sun et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Unveiling new microbial eukaryotes in the surface ocean

(2008) Ramon Massana et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging toSyndiniales(Alveolata)

(2008) L. Guillou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY