In general, because algal and cyanobacterial odors vary in chemistry and intensity according to blooming pattern, it is necessary to learn more about the related factors and processes (e.g., changes due to differences in taxa).
The differences in taxa detection accuracy seems mainly due to the fact that MTR detected more taxa than LCA, therefore affecting taxa specificity.
However, both the common themes (auxiliary metabolic genes (dsrC); some shared taxa) as well as differences (no dsrA in this paper; some differences in taxa identified) should be discussed.
Although this discrepancy can be explained by difference in plant taxa, more investigations involving different plants are needed in order to unravel possible general rules.
To detect any significant differences in microbial taxa (OTU) abundance between the animals with different feeds, we developed a partial statistical model, implemented in custom c++ programs.
In some studies, the differences in %EPT taxa, EPT density, MCI and QMCI between pasture and forested streams were significant (Parkyn et al. 2006; Quinn et al. 1997; Shearer and Young 2011).
Finally, we used ANOVA and Tukey's HSD to assess differences in microbial taxa between major groups (LG, FG, LD, and FD).
This morphological continuum roughly follows the stride length differences in these taxa (Alexander and Jayes, 1983; Alexander and Maloiy, 1984), where cursorial mammals have the relatively shortest strides and non-cursors have intermediate relative stride lengths compared to cursors and primates.
The observed differences in detected taxa can furthermore be explained by known biases of 16S rRNA gene primers, in particular, the 799F primer was designed to avoid contamination from chloroplast 16S sequences, a side effect of which is a strong bias against Cyanobacteria (Chelius and Triplett, 2001).
However, total synchronization of TEFs was not feasible, as there were orders of a magnitude difference in TEFs between taxa for some compounds.
