A convenient correspondence between k-mer-based metagenomic distances and phylogenetically-informed β-diversity measures

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About the Authors

Hongxuan Zhai

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Julia Fukuyama

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Microbiome
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