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Optimised biomolecular extraction for metagenomic analysis of microbial biofilms from high-mountain streams
Susheel Bhanu Busi, Paraskevi V. Pramateftaki, Jade Brandani…·Tom J. Battin
The paper benchmarks nucleic acid extraction protocols for microbial biofilms in glacier-fed streams, finding an adapted phenol-chloroform method yields better DNA quality and taxonomic profiles than commercial methods.
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