Community heterogeneity scaling of gut microbiomes across Chinese ethnicities and lifestyles appears invariant

In microbiome research, community heterogeneity of microbiota holds significant theoretical and practical implications, with both microbiome diversity and inter-subject heterogeneity being central objectives of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP). While diversity analysis, such as Shannon entropy, has become a de facto standard in microbiome studies, heterogeneity has been less frequently examined. However, this does not imply its lesser importance; rather, research in macrobial ecology has shown