Primer selection impacts specific population abundances but not community dynamics in a monthly time‐series 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of coastal marine bacterioplankton

Primers targeting the 16S small subunit ribosomal RNA marker gene, used to characterize bacterial and archaeal communities, have recently been re-evaluated for marine planktonic habitats. To investigate whether primer selection affects the ecological interpretation of bacterioplankton populations an... View More