Hill number as a bacterial diversity measure framework with high-throughput sequence data.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial diversity is an important parameter for measuring bacterial contributions to the global ecosystem. However, even the task of describing bacterial diversity is challenging due to biological and technological difficulties. One of the challenges in bacterial diversity estimation is the appropriate measure of rare taxa, but the uncertainty of the size of rare biosphere is yet to be experimentally determined. One approach is using the generalized diversity, Hill number (N_a), to control the variability associated with rare taxa by differentially weighing them. Here, we investigated Hill number as a framework for microbial diversity measure using a taxa-accmulation curve (TAC) with soil bacterial community data from two distinct studies by 454 pyrosequencing. The reliable bio

SUBMITTER: Kang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5128788 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature