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Next-generation sequencing as a powerful motor for advances in the biological and environmental sciences

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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides unprecedented insight into (meta)genomes, (meta)transcriptomes (cDNA) and (meta)barcodes of individuals, populations and communities of Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, as well as viruses. This special issue combines reviews and original papers reporting technical and scientific advances in genomics and transcriptomics of non-model species, as well as quantification and functional analyses of biodiversity using NGS technologies of the second and third generations. In addition, certain papers also exemplify the transition from Sanger to NGS barcodes in molecular taxonomy.

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The authors thank Pr. M. DuBow (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay) for critical reading of the manuscript, as well as CNRS-InEE for supporting the RTP Génomique Environnementale (2011–2013) and with INRA the GDR3692 Génomique Environnementale (2015–2018).

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  1. GDR3692 Génomique Environnementale, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Denis Faure & Dominique Joly

  2. UMR9198, CNRS, CEA, Institut for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Saclay Plant Sciences, Université Paris-Sud, bat 23, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Denis Faure

  3. Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie, UMR9191, CNRS-IRD-Paris-Sud, bat 13, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Dominique Joly

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Faure, D., Joly, D. Next-generation sequencing as a powerful motor for advances in the biological and environmental sciences. Genetica 143, 129–132 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-015-9831-8

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