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Age-related changes in the human gut microbial ecosystem, and potential factors that could affect microbiota composition at different stages of life. α-diversity: species (taxa) richness within a single host/microbial environment; β-diversity: diversity in microbial community (taxonomic abundance profiles) between different environments/samples) [4, 23, 31, 34, 73].
