The core microbiome as a reproducible, data-driven abstraction, not a biological entity
Microbial communities are highly diverse, making it difficult to distinguish stable ecological patterns from stochastic variation. The core microbiome offers a widely used framework for simplification, but prevalence-based definitions are often criticized for relying on arbitrary thresholds. We propose an alternative view in which the core microbiome is not a biologically complete or functionally…
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