bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/626119; this version posted May 3, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 rpoB, a promising marker for analyzing the diversity of bacterial 2 communities by amplicon sequencing 3 Jean-Claude Ogier1, Sylvie Pagès1, Maxime Galan3, Mathieu Barret2 and Sophie 4 Gaudriault1 5 1 INRA, Université de Montpellier, UMR1333-DGIMI, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France 6 2 INRA, AGROCAMPUS-Ouest, Université d’Angers, Beaucouzé, France 7 3 CBGP, INRA, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Univ. Montpellier, 755 avenue du Campus 8 Agropolis, CS 300 16, F-34988 Montferrier sur Lez cedex, France 9 10 Email addresses of the authors 11 Corresponding author: Jean-Claude OGIER, UMR 1333 DGIMI, Faculté des 12 Sciences, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 54, 34095 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 05, FRANCE, +33 13 4 67 14 48 33, 77
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[email protected] 18 19 Abstract 20 Background 21 Microbiome composition is frequently studied by the amplification and high-throughput 22 sequencing of specific molecular markers (metabarcoding). Various hypervariable regions of 23 the 16S rRNA gene are classically used to estimate bacterial diversity, but other universal bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/626119; this version posted May 3, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved.