Categorization of the gut microbiota: enterotypes or gradients?

Grouping the microbiota of individual subjects into compositional categories, or enterotypes, based on the dominance of certain genera may have oversimplified a complex situation. Grouping the microbiota of individual subjects into compositional categories, or enterotypes, based on the dominance of...

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Published inNature reviews. Microbiology Vol. 10; no. 9; pp. 591 - 592
Main Authors Jeffery, Ian B., Claesson, Marcus J., O'Toole, Paul W., Shanahan, Fergus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2012
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Bacteria - classification
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biota
Blood groups
Cluster Analysis
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Diet
Frailty
Gastrointestinal Diseases - microbiology
Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology
Gastrointestinal Tract - physiology
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - methods
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - utilization
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Life Sciences
Medical Microbiology
Metagenome
Microbiology
Microbiota
Microorganisms
Parasitology
Virology
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Summary:Grouping the microbiota of individual subjects into compositional categories, or enterotypes, based on the dominance of certain genera may have oversimplified a complex situation. Grouping the microbiota of individual subjects into compositional categories, or enterotypes, based on the dominance of certain genera may have oversimplified a complex situation.
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ISSN:1740-1526
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DOI:10.1038/nrmicro2859