A Robust Metatranscriptomic Technology for Population-Scale Studies of Diet, Gut Microbiome, and Human Health

Figure 6

Stool samples were collected immediately and at three and ten minutes (a, b, and c, respectively) after the stool was produced by three participants (P12, P13, and P14). Unsupervised clustering analysis (Kendall’s correlation) of samples shows a high similarity of strain-level taxonomy (a) and KEGG-based microbial functions (b) based on the donor, and not based on the time of collection.

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