A research team collects stool samples from a healthy adult volunteer to study microbial diversity in the human gut. The volunteer provides three samples over the course of a single day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. The research team compares the microbial composition of the three samples.
What is this research project investigating?

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A research team collects stool samples from a healthy adult volunteer to study microbial diversity in the human gut. The volunteer provides three samples over the course of a single day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. The research team compares the microbial composition of the three samples.

What is this research project investigating?

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Inter-individual variation between healthy and diseased individuals

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Intra-individual variation across gut and oral microbiomes

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Inter-individual variation in the gut microbiome

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Intra-individual variation in the gut microbiome

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