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keystone taxa: a standalone construct

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Microbiome research

microbes whose presence shapes community structure and function far beyond what their abundance would suggest.

In microbiome research, keystone taxa refers to microbes whose presence shapes community structure and function far beyond what their abundance would suggest. This meaning comes from Banerjee (2018) in Nature Reviews Microbiology.[1]

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References

Banerjee, S., Schlaeppi, K., & van der Heijden, M. G. A. (2018). Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 16(9), 567-576. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0024-1

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