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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021

Comparing Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Sediment DNA Records of Cyanobacteria in Experimental and Reference Lakes.

Hebah S Mejbel, William Dodsworth, Alexandre Baud, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Frances R Pick

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hebah S MejbelCentre for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
William DodsworthCentre for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Alexandre BaudDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Irene Gregory-EavesDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Frances R PickCentre for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
University of Ottawa · CAMcGill University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sediment DNA (sedDNA) analyses are rapidly emerging as powerful tools for the reconstruction of environmental and evolutionary change. While there are an increasing number of studies using molecular genetic approaches to track changes over time, few studies have compared the coherence between quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods and metabarcoding techniques. Primer specificity, bioinformatic analyses, and PCR inhibitors in sediments could affect the quantitative data obtained from these approaches. We compared the performance of droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) and high-throughput sequencing (HTS) for the quantification of target genes of cyanobacteria in lake sediments and tested whether the two techniques similarly reveal expected patterns through time. Absolute concentrations of cyanobacterial 16S rRNA genes were compared between ddPCR and HTS using dated sediment cores collected from two experimental (Lake 227, fertilized since 1969 and Lake 223, acidified from 1976 to 1983) and two reference lakes (Lakes 224 and 442) in the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Canada. Relative abundances of

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droplet digital PCRhigh-throughput sequencingmetabarcodingpaleolimnologysedDNAtargeted PCR

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