Sequencing introduced false positive rare taxa lead to biased microbial community diversity, assembly, and interaction interpretation in amplicon studies

Jia, YY; Zhao, SG; Guo, WJ; Peng, L; Zhao, F; Wang, LS; Fan, GY; Zhu, YF; Xu, DY; Liu, GL; Wang, RQ; Fang, XD; Zhang, H; Kristiansen, K; Zhang, WW; Chen, JW

Zhang, WW (通讯作者),BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, Peoples R China.;Zhang, WW; Chen, JW (通讯作者),BGI Shenzhen, BGI Qingdao, Qingdao 266555, Peoples R China.;Kristiansen, K; Chen, JW (通讯作者),Univ Copenhagen, Lab Genom & Mol Biomed, Dept Biol, Univ Pk 13, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.;Kristiansen, K; Chen, JW (通讯作者),BGI Shenzhen, Qingdao Europe Adv Inst Life Sci, Qingdao 266555, Peoples R China.

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME, 2022; 17 (1):

Abstract

Background Increasing studies have demonstrated potential disproportionate functional and ecological contributions of rare taxa in a microbial communi......

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