Categorization of the gut microbiota: enterotypes or gradients?

• Published in: Nature 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
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2012; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 41; 631/1647/514/2254; 692/698/2741/2135; Bacteria - classification; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biota; Blood groups; Cluster Analysis; comment; 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

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...