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Figure 1: QIIME analyses of the distal gut microbiotas of conventionally raised and conventionalized mice, gnotobiotic mice colonized with a human fecal gut microbiota (H-mice), and human adult mono- and dizygotic twins.

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We thank our collaborators for their helpful suggestions on features, documentation and the manuscript, and our funding agencies for their commitment to open-source software. This work was supported in part by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and grants from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Colorado Center for Biofuels and Biorefining and the US National Institutes of Health (DK78669, GM65103, GM8759, HG4872 and its ARRA supplement, HG4866, DK83981 and LM9451).

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Caporaso, J., Kuczynski, J., Stombaugh, J. et al. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data. Nat Methods 7, 335–336 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.f.303

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