A mixed-model approach for estimating drivers of microbiota community composition and differential taxonomic abundance

ABSTRACT Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and metabarcoding approaches are increasingly applied to wild animal populations, but there is a disconnect between the widely applied generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) approaches commonly used to study phenotypic variation and the statistical toolkit fr...

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Main Authors: Amy R. Sweeny, Hannah Lemon, Anan Ibrahim, Kathryn A. Watt, Kenneth Wilson, Dylan Z. Childs, Daniel H. Nussey, Andrew Free, Luke McNally
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-08-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00040-23