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Community ecology as a framework for human microbiome research.
Review in Nature medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- A microbiologist's field guide to community ecology.ISME communications · 2026Review
- Oral human papillomavirus infection aligns with a coordinated bacterial microbiome inferred virulence ecology.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
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- Probiotic biogeography and sepsis prevention in the neonatal intestine.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal characterization of the dynamic changes in the intestinal microbiota of Taihe Silky Fowl.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
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Abstract
The field of human microbiome research has revealed the intimate co-association of humans with diverse communities of microbes in various habitats in the human body, and the necessity of these microbes for the maintenance of human health. Microbial heterogeneity between humans and across spatial and temporal gradients requires multidimensional datasets and a unifying set of theories and statistical tools to analyze the human microbiome and fully realize the potential of this field. Here we consider the utility of community ecology as a framework for the interrogation and interpretation of the human microbiome.
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