Table 3.

Taxonomic genera mostly contributing to VPR ranks in HGM samples from the HMP and AGP datasets.

Ranks	HMP∗	AGP∗
7–9	Bacteroides (61%), Alistipes (15%), Parabacteroides (5%), Paraprevotella (3%)	Bacteroides (44%), Ruminococcus (8%), Akkermansia (5%), Anaerostipes (4%) Parabacteroides (4%)
4–6	Alistipes (28%), Blautia (10%), Roseburia (8%), Eubacterium (7%), Prevotella (5%)	Alistipes (16%), Roseburia (14%), Blautia (13%), Prevotella (9%), Bifidobacterium (7%)
0–3	Faecalibacterium (17%), Oscillibacter (13%), Lactobacillus (8%), Parasutterella (5%)	Faecalibacterium (22%), Lachnoclostridium (7%), Oscillospira (5%), Lactobacillus (4%)

^∗Average contribution of a genus to a subset of VPR ranks (by abundance) is given in parentheses.