The 'Human Microbiome Tree Of Life' (IMAGE)

Università di Trento

The 'Human Microbiome Tree Of Life'

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The image below represents the 'human microbiome tree of life' which includes the thousands of new species that were discovered in this work. It is thus a representation of the total diversity of the human microbiome across human populations, age, conditions, and body sites that is described in the article. The image was generated by an open source software written by the authors and the image can be freely used.

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