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Explaining the microbial diversity conundrum: can microbiome composition be crucial for host fitness, while highly divergent among healthy individuals?

The paper addresses the microbial beta-diversity conundrum by proposing computational solutions showing how microbiome composition can be crucial for host fitness yet vary among healthy individuals.

Simplified model assumptions artificially constrain the parameter range in which selection at the holobiont level can occur

The paper shows that VVD's model assumptions restrict the parameter space for holobiont-level selection, and slight modifications lead to different outcomes.