Comprehensive names/aliases of taxonomy units in the gut microbiome

Downstream analysis and statistics
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I see your excellent work mentioning the microbiome. I am looking for a comprehensive list of high-quality taxonomy unit names in the gut microbiome. Since this area seems to be rapidly evolving, I am unsure which one is the best to use. Would you please let me know your recommendation?

Your help is much appreciated! I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

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Hi user,

The answer’s actually a bit complicated since it depends on which population you’re looking at (e.g. US vs. China vs. Africa) and how you analyze it (e.g. 16S vs. metagenomics), but Dr. Huttenhower’s reccomendation would be to look at the kSGBs in Edo’s paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30661755/.

Thanks,
Sagun