Estimating and comparing the diversity of marine actinobacteria
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Vol. 87 (1) , 3-9
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-004-6524-1
Abstract
This paper reviews the application of species richness estimators to microbial diversity data and describes phylogenetic approaches to comparing microbial communities. The techniques are demonstrated using a community of marine actinobacteria. Results demonstrate that marine environments harbour massive actinobacterial diversity. Furthermore, these predictions are likely to be severe underestimates due to the use of arbitrary OTU definitions.Keywords
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