Characterization of the Diversity and Temporal Stability of Bacterial Communities in Human Milk (original) (raw)
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A small proportion of the total richness was persistent within subject and represented the majority of the community present.
A. The number of OTUs (as defined by 97% sequence similarity) observed across all samples for each woman ranged from 100 to 600; however, only a small proportion of those OTUs were present in every sample from an individual subject-representing the individual core milk microbiome. B. The individual core milk microbiome for each woman was composed of the OTUs present in each of her samples. This relatively small number of OTUs represented the majority of the relative abundance of the community observed over time.