About the Authors

Tsukushi Kamiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsukushi.kamiya@college-de-france.fr (TK); samuel.alizon@college-de-france.fr (SA)

Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France

Mircea T. Sofonea

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations PCCEI, Univ Montpellier, INSERM, Univ Antilles, Montpellier, France, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Intensive Care, Pain and Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, Nîmes, France

Michael France

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nicolas Tessandier

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MIVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Ignacio G Bravo

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MIVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Carmen Lia Murall

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MIVEGEC, CNRS, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Montréal, Canada

Jacques Ravel

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Samuel Alizon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsukushi.kamiya@college-de-france.fr (TK); samuel.alizon@college-de-france.fr (SA)

Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JR is the cofounder of LUCA Biologics, a biotechnology company focusing on translating microbiome research into live biotherapeutics drugs for women’s health, and a member of Ancilia Bio Scientific Advisory Board. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.