Microbial diversity insights are often strongly biased
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
Substantial methodological biases in soil fungal diversity were demonstrated by an Estonian-German research consortium (University of Tartu and EMBL). It turns out that even sophisticated and innovative approaches such as DNA barcoding and PCR-free analyses are likely to end up with biased information when researching the taxonomic community composition of soil biota. The study is published in both open access journal MycoKeys and Science magazine.