operational taxonomic units
New operational taxonomic units of Enterocytozoon in three marsupial species
... Exploring the genetic composition of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in animals and humans is important for under- standing transmission patterns of disease (enterocyto- zoonosis), and for its prevention and control. By ...
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Three operational taxonomic units of Eimeria are common in Nigerian chickens and may undermine effective diagnosis of coccidiosis
... Background: Chicken is fast becoming the world ’ s most consumed meat. As a consequence poultry health is more important now than ever before, with pathogens of chickens recognised as serious threats to food security. ...
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Broadscale Ecological Patterns Are Robust to Use of Exact Sequence Variants versus Operational Taxonomic Units
... (A) operational taxonomic units (OTUs) versus (B) exact sequencing variants (ESVs) for bacteria across the elevation gradient at three time points (16, 12, and 18 ...
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OptiClust, an Improved Method for Assigning Amplicon-Based Sequence Data to Operational Taxonomic Units
... ABSTRACT Assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) is a computational bottleneck in the process of analyzing microbial communities. Although this has been an active ...
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mPUMA: a computational approach to microbiota analysis by de novo assembly of operational taxonomic units based on protein-coding barcode sequences
... of operational taxonomic units (OTU) with clustering approaches such as those of MOTHUR [5] or UCLUST [6] as implemented within packages such as QIIME ...
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Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity
... create replicates. We then used CL clustering to cluster all of the subsamples, as well as the full dataset, and combined the clustering results by representative OTU sequence (defined as the most abundant sequence in ...
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Investigating Colonization of the Healthy Adult Gastrointestinal Tract by Fungi
... ABSTRACT A wide diversity of fungi have been detected in the human gastrointes- tinal (GI) tract with the potential to provide or influence important functions. How- ever, many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool ...
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Autism spectrum disorder is associated with gut microbiota disorder in children
... on operational taxonomic units (OTUs) analysis showed that the ASD group and the healthy control (HC) group had a large difference in the abundance of microbiota at the level of family, genus and ...
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Bamboo lignocellulose degradation by gut symbiotic microbiota of the bamboo snout beetle Cyrtotrachelus buqueti
... OTU: operational taxonomic units; LDA: linear discriminant analysis; SEM: scanning electron microscopy; GHs: glycoside hydrolases; GTs: glycosyltransferases; CEs: carbohydrate esterases; CBMs: ...
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A human gut phage catalog correlates the gut phageome with type 2 diabetes
... phage operational taxonomic units (pOTUs) and identification of large phage scaffolds ( n = 2567, ≥ 10 k) revealed a comprehensive human gut phageome with a substantial number of novel sequences ...
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The prophylactic effects of BIFICO on the antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis and gut microbiota
... The number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in the control group after antibiotic treatment was significantly reduced compared to that prior to treatment, while those of the regul[r] ...
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Articles
... (2008) to determine whether they displayed detectable pseudogene traits (Buhay 2009). As DNA barcoding is usually a distance-based approach, we constructed a neighbour- joining tree (BIONJ, Gascuel 1997) with ...
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A Case Study of Various Constraints Affecting...
... This paper presents an approach to the unit commitment problem in an electrical power system when subjected to a variety of operational constraints. The additional constraints are easily generated and can have a ...
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Power Generation Integrated Operation and Maintenance Scheduling: A study of the Saudi Electricity Company.
... A new approach for maintenance scheduling of generating units in electrical power systems based on their operational hours. 1 1 1[r] ...
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Shifts in coastal sediment oxygenation cause pronounced changes in microbial community composition and associated metabolism
... To verify the mi- crobial community composition responses to oxygenation, complementary samples for 16S rRNA gene operational taxonomic unit (OTU) analysis were collected during an exper[r] ...
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Assessment and management of inherent and dynamic soil properties for intensive agriculture in the North Island, New Zealand and Tasmania, Australia
... Chapter 2 – Examples of assessing inherent soil properties 2.1 Chapter outline 2.2 Map units and taxonomic units 2.3 Example 1 - The Te Puke district 2.4 Te Puke district soil profile ch[r] ...
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The ecology of scattering layer biota around Indian Ocean seamounts and islands
... Molecular Operational Taxonomic Unit Middle of What seamount Madagascar Ridge mitochondrial Multiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation mean volume backscatter Million Years Ago naut[r] ...
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Apical periodontitis: preliminary assessment of microbiota by 16S rRNA high throughput amplicon target sequencing
... These species are all normal commensals of the hu- man oral cavity and were isolated in radicular cyst [25]. Beta diversity calculation as well as ADONIS and ANO- SIM statistical tests display a degree of separation of ...
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Exposure to ambient particulate matter alters the microbial composition and induces immune changes in rat lung
... microbiota taxonomic alpha diver- sity increases with environmental exposures, and that spe- cific aspects of the lung microbiota are related to different sources of PM ...
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Insect assemblages in a native (kanuka Kunzea ericoides) and an invasive (gorse Ulex europaeus) shrubland
... Abstract: In New Zealand, the European shrub gorse (Ulex europaeus) is becoming the initial post-disturbance shrub, replacing the native myrtaceous manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) and kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) scrub in ...
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