Evaluating Established Methods for Rumen 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing With Mock Microbial Populations.

Front Microbiol · 2018 · PMC6026621 · PMID 29988486

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tendency toward significanceP = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The best result achieved for correlations between MC and the theoretical composition was a tendency toward significance (Spearman = 0.67, P = 0.07) when 20 PCR cycles were used in combination with the V4 primers.

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