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Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies

Noah Fierer, Pok Man Leung, Rachael Lappan, Raphael Eisenhofer, Francesco Ricci, Sophie I. Holland, Nicholas B. Dragone, Linda L. Blackall, Xiyang Dong, Cristina Dorador, Belinda C. Ferrari, Jacqueline Goordial, Susan Holmes, Fumio Inagaki, Tal Korem, Simone S. Li, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jessica L. Metcalf, Niranjan Nagarajan, William D. Orsi, Erin R. Shanahan, Alan W. Walker, Laura S. Weyrich, Jack A. Gilbert, Amy D. Willis, Benjamin J. Callahan, Ashley Shade, Julian Parkhill, Jillian F. Banfield, Chris Greening

2025Nature Microbiology82 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Topics & Concepts

ContaminationBiomass (ecology)MetagenomicsMicrobiomeEnvironmental scienceBiotechnologyEnvironmental chemistryBiologyEcologyBioinformaticsChemistryBiochemistryGeneGut microbiota and healthMolecular Biology Techniques and ApplicationsMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology
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