Definition
The study of the covariation of many taxonomic groups across all domains of life within a set of samples using a family of techniques, all of which identify many statistical associations and allow those associations to be subsequently visualized.
Background
Molecular techniques used to describe marine microbial communities are constantly improving and are describing the structure of marine microbial communities in ways that are progressively more detailed. At the same time, large-scale efforts sample many locations of the ocean, while others regularly sample the same locations many times in the ocean. Together these efforts promise to increase the resolution of data sets that describe the spatiotemporal distributions of marine microorganisms including bacteria, archaea, protists, and marine viruses. These large data sets present challenges in...
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Cram, J., Sun, F., Fuhrman, J.A. (2013). Marine Bacterial, Archaeal, and Protistan Association Networks. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_721-3
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