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A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity
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2017-11Registro en:
Thompson, Luke R.; Sanders, Jon G.; McDonald, Daniel; Amir, Amnon; Ladau, Joshua; et al.; A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity; Nature Publishing Group; Nature; 551; 7681; 11-2017; 457-463
0028-0836
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Thompson, Luke R.
Sanders, Jon G.
McDonald, Daniel
Amir, Amnon
Ladau, Joshua
Locey, Kenneth J.
Prill, Robert J.
Tripathi, Anupriya
Gibbons, Sean M.
Ackermann, Gail
Navas Molina, Jose A.
Janssen, Stefan
Kopylova, Evguenia
Vázquez Baeza, Yoshiki
González, Antonio
Morton, James T.
Mirarab, Siavash
Xu, Zhenjiang Zech
Jiang, Lingjing
Haroon, Mohamed F.
Kanbar, Jad
Zhu, Qiyun
Song, Se Jin
Kosciolek, Tomasz
Bokulich, Nicholas A.
Lefler, Joshua
Brislawn, Colin J.
Humphrey, Gregory
Owens, Sarah M.
Hampton Marcell, Jarrad
Berg Lyons, Donna
McKenzie, Valerie
Fierer, Noah
Fuhrman, Jed A.
Clauset, Aaron
Stevens, Rick L.
Shade, Ashley
Pollard, Katherine S.
Goodwin, Kelly D.
Jansson, Janet K.
Gilbert, Jack A.
Knight, Rob
Dionisi, Hebe Monica
Lozada, Mariana
Mac Cormack, Walter Patricio
Resumen
Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA sequencing, a lack of standardized protocols and common analytical frameworks impedes comparisons among studies, hindering the development of global inferences about microbial life on Earth. Here we present a meta-analysis of microbial community samples collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project. Coordinated protocols and new analytical methods, particularly the use of exact sequences instead of clustered operational taxonomic units, enable bacterial and archaeal ribosomal RNA gene sequences to be followed across multiple studies and allow us to explore patterns of diversity at an unprecedented scale. The result is both a reference database giving global context to DNA sequence data and a framework for incorporating data from future studies, fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth's microbial diversity.