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Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding
The diversity of soil bacteria was analyzed via metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches using DNA samples isolated from the biocrusts of 12 different Arctic and Antarctic sites. For the metabarcoding approach, the V3-4 region of the 16S rRNA was targeted. Our results showed that nearly all operatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37107570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14040812 |
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author | Becker, Burkhard Pushkareva, Ekaterina |
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description | The diversity of soil bacteria was analyzed via metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches using DNA samples isolated from the biocrusts of 12 different Arctic and Antarctic sites. For the metabarcoding approach, the V3-4 region of the 16S rRNA was targeted. Our results showed that nearly all operational taxonomic units (OTUs = taxa) found in metabarcoding analyses were recovered in metagenomic analyses. In contrast, metagenomics identified a large number of additional OTUs absent in metabarcoding analyses. In addition, we found huge differences in the abundance of OTUs between the two methods. The reasons for these differences seem to be (1) the higher sequencing depth in metagenomics studies, which allows the detection of low-abundance community members in metagenomics, and (2) bias of primer pairs used to amplify the targeted sequence in metabarcoding, which can change the community composition dramatically even at the lower taxonomic levels. We strongly recommend using only metagenomic approaches when establishing the taxonomic profiles of whole biological communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-101382922023-04-28 Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding Becker, Burkhard Pushkareva, Ekaterina Genes (Basel) Brief Report The diversity of soil bacteria was analyzed via metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches using DNA samples isolated from the biocrusts of 12 different Arctic and Antarctic sites. For the metabarcoding approach, the V3-4 region of the 16S rRNA was targeted. Our results showed that nearly all operational taxonomic units (OTUs = taxa) found in metabarcoding analyses were recovered in metagenomic analyses. In contrast, metagenomics identified a large number of additional OTUs absent in metabarcoding analyses. In addition, we found huge differences in the abundance of OTUs between the two methods. The reasons for these differences seem to be (1) the higher sequencing depth in metagenomics studies, which allows the detection of low-abundance community members in metagenomics, and (2) bias of primer pairs used to amplify the targeted sequence in metabarcoding, which can change the community composition dramatically even at the lower taxonomic levels. We strongly recommend using only metagenomic approaches when establishing the taxonomic profiles of whole biological communities. MDPI 2023-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10138292/ /pubmed/37107570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14040812 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Becker, Burkhard Pushkareva, Ekaterina Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title | Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title_full | Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title_fullStr | Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title_full_unstemmed | Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title_short | Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding |
title_sort | metagenomics provides a deeper assessment of the diversity of bacterial communities in polar soils than metabarcoding |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37107570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14040812 |
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