Gut microbiota ecology: Biodiversity estimated from hybrid neutral-niche model increases with health status and aging

• Claudia Sala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Sala, Enrico Giampieri

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

  * E-mail: claudia.sala3@unibo.it

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4889-1047

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• Enrico Giampieri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Sala, Enrico Giampieri

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Silvia Vitali,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BCAM–Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

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• Paolo Garagnani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Daniel Remondini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Armando Bazzani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Claudio Franceschi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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• Gastone C. Castellani

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

  Affiliations Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Galvani Interdepartmental Center, Bologna, Italy

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