Genome-wide sweeps create ecological units in the human gut microbiome

Isolate genome collection A total of 19,837 publicly available isolate genomes were collected and consisted of the entire data in the Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome (UHGG) catalogue 45 (v.1.0, 10,648 genomes) and 4 large-scale culturomic studies 28 , 46 , 47 , 48 . Furthermore, a group of 186 isolates from Austrian individuals were newly collected and sequenced. …