Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification.
Kirsten A Ziesemer,
Allison E Mann,
Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan,
Hannes Schroeder,
Andrew T Ozga,
Bernd W Brandt,
Egija Zaura,
Andrea Waters-Rist,
Menno Hoogland,
Domingo C Salazar-García,
Mark Aldenderfer,
Camilla Speller,
Jessica Hendy,
Darlene A Weston,
Sandy J MacDonald,
Gavin H Thomas,
Matthew J Collins,
Cecil M Lewis,
Corinne Hofman,
Christina Warinner
Nov 22, 2018
To date, characterization of ancient oral (dental calculus) and gut (coprolite) microbiota has been primarily accomplished through a metataxonomic approach involving targeted amplification of one or more variable regions in the...