A computational framework for resolving the microbiome diversity conundrum.

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Recent empirical studies offer conflicting findings regarding the relation between host fitness and the composition of its microbiome, a conflict which we term 'the microbial β- diversity conundrum'. The microbiome is crucial for host wellbeing and survival. Surprisingly, different healthy individuals' microbiome compositions, even in the same population, often differ dramatically, contrary to the notion that a...

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