bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/365395; this version posted July 9, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the impact of the G2 2 enhancer, bead sizes and lysing tubes on the bacterial community 3 composition during DNA extraction from recalcitrant soil core 4 samples based on community sequencing and qPCR 5 6 Alex Gobbi1¶, Rui G. Santini2¶, Elisa Filippi1, Lea Ellegaard-Jensen1, Carsten S. 7 Jacobsen1, Lars H. Hansen1* 8 9 1 Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark 10 2 Natural History Museum, Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 11 Denmark 12 13 14 * Corresponding author 15 E-mail:
[email protected] (LHH) 16 17 18 ¶ These authors contributed equally to this work. 19 20 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/365395; this version posted July 9, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 21 Abstract 22 Soil DNA extraction encounters numerous challenges that can affect both yield and 23 purity of the recovered DNA. Clay particles lead to reduced DNA extraction efficiency, 24 and PCR inhibitors from the soil matrix can negatively affect downstream analyses 25 when applying DNA sequencing.