Latitude in sample handling and storage for infant faecal microbiota studies: the elephant in the room?

Temporal and technical variability of human gut metagenomes

(2015) Anita Y Voigt et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Collection media and delayed freezing effects on microbial composition of human stool

(2015) Roberto Flores et al.   Microbiome

The Effects of Freezing on Faecal Microbiota as Determined Using MiSeq Sequencing and Culture-Based Investigations

(2015) Fiona Fouhy et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of methods for fecal microbiome biospecimen collection

(2014) Christine Dominianni et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Dysbiosis Anticipating Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Premature Infants

(2014) K. Sim et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Storage conditions of intestinal microbiota matter in metagenomic analysis

(2012) Silvia Cardona et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Freezing fecal samples prior to DNA extraction affects the Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio determined by downstream quantitative PCR analysis

(2012) Martin Iain Bahl et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

(2012) Anna Klindworth et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Improved Detection of Bifidobacteria with Optimised 16S rRNA-Gene Based Pyrosequencing

(2012) Kathleen Sim et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of Storage Conditions for Human Vaginal Microbiome Studies

(2012) Guoyun Bai et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of the Fecal Microbiota Using High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Stable Microbial Community during Storage

(2012) Ian M. Carroll et al.   PLoS One

Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

(2011) Christopher Quince et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Effect of storage conditions on the assessment of bacterial community structure in soil and human-associated samples

(2010) Christian L. Lauber et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

(2008) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA