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Percent of microbiota that belong to the phyla Bacteroidetes or Firmicutes

Range	> 99 %
Organism	Human Homo sapiens
Reference	Rawls, J. F., Mahowald, M. a, Ley, R. E., & Gordon, J. I. (2006). Reciprocal gut microbiota transplants from zebrafish and mice to germ-free recipients reveal host habitat selection. Cell, 127(2), 423–33. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.08.043PubMed ID17055441
Primary Source	Ley, R. E., Peterson, D. a, & Gordon, J. I. (2006). Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine. Cell, 124(4), 837–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.017PubMed ID16497592
Method	High throughput sequencing of amplified 16s rRNAs.
Entered by	Avi Flamholz
ID	109671