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Missing microbial eukaryotes and misleading meta-omic conclusions - Nature Communications

Meta-omic analyses are commonly used for large-scale studies of microbial eukaryotes. Here, Krinos et al. explore the potential pitfalls of common approaches to taxonomic annotation of protistan…

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The Ribosomal Operon Database (ROD) is published! We have recovered the full operon for sequenced genomes, aiming to use it for annotating long-read metabarcoding data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Ribosomal Operon Database: A Full‐Length rDNA Operon Database Derived From Genome Assemblies

Current rDNA reference sequence databases are tailored towards shorter DNA markers, such as parts of the 16/18S marker or the internally transcribed spacer (ITS) region. However, due to advances in l...

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