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16S rRNA gene sequencing is the most widely used method for characterizing bacterial communities in this wiki. It targets the ~1,500 base pair 16S ribosomal RNA gene, which contains nine hypervariable regions (V1–V9) flanked by conserved sequences. Universal primers amp…
Shotgun metagenomics is a sequencing approach that fragments and sequences all DNA in a sample -- bacterial, archaeal, fungal, viral, and host -- without prior amplification of a specific gene target. Unlike 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, which identifies "who is there" …