A recent explosion in the number of studies taking advantage of the power of next-generation sequencing to explore metagenomic or 16S rRNA taxonomic diversity of microbial environments means that, we need to stop and think about how we best interpret these data.
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Gilbert et al. (2010) studied this question.
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