Improved bacterial 16S rRNA gene (V4 and V4-5) and fungal internal transcribed spacer marker gene primers for microbial community surveys

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2015-12-22Author
Walters, William
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Hyde, Embriette R.
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Berg-Lyons, Donna
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Ackermann, Gail
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Humphrey, Greg
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Parada, Alma
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Gilbert, Jack A.
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Jansson, Janet K.
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Caporaso, J. Gregory
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Fuhrman, Jed A.
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Apprill, Amy
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Knight, Rob
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9245As published
10.1128/mSystems.00009-15DOI
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Microbial ecology; Marker genes; Primers; 16S; ITSAbstract
Designing primers for PCR-based taxonomic surveys that amplify a broad range of phylotypes in varied community samples is a difficult challenge, and the comparability of data sets amplified with varied primers requires attention. Here, we examined the performance of modified 16S rRNA gene and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) primers for archaea/bacteria and fungi, respectively, with nonaquatic samples. We moved primer bar codes to the 5′ end, allowing for a range of different 3′ primer pairings, such as the 515f/926r primer pair, which amplifies variable regions 4 and 5 of the 16S rRNA gene. We additionally demonstrated that modifications to the 515f/806r (variable region 4) 16S primer pair, which improves detection of Thaumarchaeota and clade SAR11 in marine samples, do not degrade performance on taxa already amplified effectively by the original primer set. Alterations to the fungal ITS primers did result in differential but overall improved performance compared to the original primers. In both cases, the improved primers should be widely adopted for amplicon studies.
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© The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in mSystems 1 (2015): e00009-15, doi:10.1128/mSystems.00009-15.
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