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SUBMITTER: Jackson MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807925 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jackson Matthew A MA Bonder Marc Jan MJ Kuncheva Zhana Z Zierer Jonas J Fu Jingyuan J Kurilshikov Alexander A Wijmenga Cisca C Zhernakova Alexandra A Bell Jordana T JT Spector Tim D TD Steves Claire J CJ
PeerJ 20180207
Microbes in the gut microbiome form sub-communities based on shared niche specialisations and specific interactions between individual taxa. The inter-microbial relationships that define these communities can be inferred from the co-occurrence of taxa across multiple samples. Here, we present an approach to identify comparable communities within different gut microbiota co-occurrence networks, and demonstrate its use by comparing the gut microbiota community structures of three geographically di ...[more]