The human gut is host to a community of microbes (bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and phages) referred to as the gut microbiota, with their combined functions known as the gut microbiome 1. Since ...

Power analyses and sample size calculations are important parts of many research projects. Often, before data are even collected, it is necessary to calculate and justify the required sample size for ...

Looking at the population’s behavior by taking samples is quite uncertain due to its big and dynamic structure and unimaginable variability. All quantitative sampling approaches aim to draw a ...