Estimating prokaryotic diversity and its limits

By Thomas P. Curtis, William T. Sloan, J. Scannell. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology

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Using ecological diversity measures with bacterial communities. (2003, methodology): “[7] has exploited the properties of the log normal distribution to enable total OTU diversity of a sample to be estimated for di¡erent breadths of the distribution by using the ratio of N/nmax, the inverse of the Berger^Parker index.”
Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity (2016, methodology): “(35) show that the above equation can be used to rewrite equation 5 in ref.”
Insights into the resistance and resilience of the soil microbial community. (2013, background): “, 2005) and 10(4) species (Curtis et al., 2002) per gram of soil.”
Bioremediation approaches for organic pollutants: a critical perspective. (2011, background): “Because of the ubiquitous nature of microorganisms, their numbers and large biomass relative to other living organisms in the earth (Curtis et al., 2002), wider diversity and capabilities in their catalytic mechanisms (Chen et al., 1999; Paul et al., 2005), and their ability to function even in the…”
Recovery of novel bacterial diversity from mangrove sediment (2007, background): “It is estimated that the sea may support as many as 2 million diVerent phylogenetic types of bacteria (Curtis et al. 2002).”
Microbial biogeography at the soil pore scale (2011, background): “Soil is a highly complexmaterial which harbours among themost important reservoirs of biodiversity on the planet (Curtis et al., 2002; Roesch et al., 2007).”
Spatial patterns of bacterial richness and evenness in the NW Mediterranean Sea explored by pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA (2010, background): “…example, estimates of the total number of bacterial OTUs in the ocean have raised much debate, ranging from a few thousand when based on extensive cloning and sequencing (Hagström et al. 2002, Hong et al. 2006), to hundreds of millions by theoretical approaches (Dykhuizen 1998, Curtis et al. 2002).”
Integration of Microbial Ecology and Statistics: a Test To Compare Gene Libraries (2004, methodology): “LIBSHUFF applies the approximation form of the Cramérvon Mises statistic, and other studies have recently described other statistical methods for making similar comparisons (8, 9, 14, 19).”
Divergence and Redundancy of 16S rRNA Sequences in Genomes with Multiple rrn Operons (2004, background): “clone libraries from estimates of diversity (7, 17, 39).”
Identifying the Dominant Soil Bacterial Taxa in Libraries of 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA Genes (2006, background): “Culturing of the total diversity of species, estimated at 10(4) to 10(6) per 10-g soil sample (28, 46, 109), currently seems an unreachable goal, given that such large numbers of isolates are not routinely cultured and identified and that the rarer species can be expected to be difficult to find amo”
Toward a Census of Bacteria in Soil (2006, background): “Parametric models have assumed that the incidence of different species follows a lognormal [13], Pareto [16], or uniform distribution [14].”
Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness (2005, methodology): “If we assume that there are roughly 4,000 species OTUs in a gram of soil (30) and 150 in a milliliter of seawater (7), then at least 125 and 17 different OTUs, respectively, would need to be sampled before the correlation between richness and sequencing effort begins to decrease.”