{
  "id": 16801351,
  "title": "Taxon-in-context reveals ecological individuality in the human gut microbiome",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/taxon-in-context-reveals-ecological-individuality-in-the-human-gut",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760910v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Ecological theory holds that a microbe's role depends on its surrounding community. Yet abundance profiles and fixed ecological groupings leave its individual context implicit. We introduce taxon-in-context, a reproducible representation of each microbe's context within an individual's microbiome. Across 7,700 metagenomes, we show that common gut species occupy different contexts in different…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}