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ArticleISME communications2024

Amplicon sequencing with internal standards yields accurate picocyanobacteria cell abundances as validated with flow cytometry.

Alexandra E Jones-Kellett, Jesse C McNichol, Yubin Raut, Kelsy R Cain, François Ribalet, E Virginia Armbrust, Michael J Follows, Jed A Fuhrman

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Article in ISME communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Alexandra E Jones-KellettDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.
Jesse C McNicholDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States.
Yubin RautDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.
Kelsy R CainSchool of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States.
François RibaletSchool of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States.
E Virginia ArmbrustSchool of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States.
Michael J FollowsDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.
Jed A FuhrmanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States.

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Abstract

To understand ecosystem state and function, marine microbial ecologists seek measurements of organismal abundance and diversity at high taxonomic resolution. Conventional flow cytometry accurately estimates microbial cell abundance but only discerns broad groups with distinct optical properties. While amplicon sequencing resolves more comprehensive diversity within microbiomes, it typically only provides relative organismal abundances within samples, not absolute abundance changes. Internal genomic standards offer a solution for absolute amplicon-based measures. Here, we spiked genomic standards into plankton samples from surface seawater, gathered at 46-km intervals along a cruise transect spanning the southern California Current System and the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. This enabled evaluation of the absolute volumetric gene copy abundances of 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variants (amplified with 515Y-926R universal primers, quantitatively validated with mock communities) and cell abundances of picocyanobacteria with known genomic 16S copy numbers. Comparison of amplicon-derived cell abundances of

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16S rRNAabsolute abundanceamplicon sequencingflow cytometryinternal genomic standardsNorth Pacific OceanpicocyanobacteriaProchlorococcusspike-inSynechococcus

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