Diversity and heterogeneity often are conflated but are fundamentally different. An aphorism proposed by Shavit and Ellison (2021; J. Phil. 118: 525–548) for distinguishing them is that “a zoo is dive
16S rRNA sequncing of human gut microbiota from healthy controls, subjective memory impairment, and mild cogntive impairment participants from the COMBAT and CANN studies
The protozoan parasites in the Cryptosporidium genus cause both acute diarrheal disease and subclinical (ie, nondiarrheal) disease. It was unclear if the microbiota can influence the manifestation of
These data correspond to Extended Data 3 of VanInsberghe et al. To directly count the cell density in mouse fecal samples, we homogenized stool pellets of known mass, mounted on microscope slides, and
The datasets includes 107 metagenomic samples from Spanish and 76 samples from German based on fecal microbial species. Missing values in the German metadata were imputed using the missForest algorith
