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The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment with unique bio-physical properties AND its associated microbes. 🦠+🏝️
#Microbiota refers to the microbial members of the microbiome. 🦠 This word is therefore strongly related to this microbial biome but it does not concern the environmental conditions of the specified habitat.
I see lots of people and papers still defining #microbiome as a "collection of genes/genomes". Worth knowing though is that "microbiome" is not an -omics word related to the word genome. We have another, more appropriate, word to describe a collection of genomes: #metagenome
