Definition
The network of microbial communities constructed using molecule-based experimental data, especially metagenomic data (e.g., microarray hybridization, sequencing), is referred to as molecular ecological network (MEN). It aims to understand the interaction of members in a given community. If the molecules are based on phylogenetic gene markers (e.g., 16S small subunit ribosomal DNA), the network is defined as phylogenetic molecular ecological networks (pMENs).
Introduction
In microbial ecology, the majority of data analytical efforts are focused on revealing the composition and diversity of a microbial community and also the changes across space, time series, and/or with experimental treatments. The conventional analytical approaches usually use species richness and α-diversity to depict a community structure, and several diversity...
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Deng, Y., Zhou, J.(. (2013). Molecular Ecological Network of Microbial Communities. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_758-2
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