Absolute Quantification of Microbial Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archaea: Taxon-resolved abundances of rRNA genes and whole genomes (~cells) per liter via internal standards or anchoring with flow cytometry, from amplicons and metagenomes with validations and application to long ocean transects

Nathan Williams, Department of Biological Sciences–Marine and Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Yubin Raut, University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Qicheng Bei, Department of Biological Sciences–Marine and Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, LOS Angeles, United States, Alexandra Elizabeth JonesKellett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michael J Follows, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Jed A Fuhrman, University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States