Categorization of the gut microbiota: enterotypes or gradients?

Ian B. Jeffery; Marcus J. Claesson; Paul W. O'Toole; Fergus Shanahan

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2859

doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2859

Categorization of the gut microbiota: enterotypes or gradients?

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Nature Reviews Microbiology88.10

Volume: 10, Issue: 9, Pages: 591 - 592

Published: Aug 14, 2012

Abstract

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