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Microbial Species Abundance Distributions Guide Human Population Size Estimation from Sewage Microbiomes
Lin Zhang, Likai Chen, Xiaoqian Annie Yu…·Fangqiong Ling
This paper introduces MicrobiomeCensus, an algorithm to estimate human population size from sewage samples using microbial taxon abundance distributions, showing it outperforms generic algorithms in simulations and field data.
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