Not just the gut microbiome, also the gut mycobiome! 0.1% of microbes in gut are fungi!

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Mycobiome in the Gut: A Multiperspective Review

Human gut is home to a diverse and complex microbial ecosystem encompassing bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and other microorganisms that have an undisputable role in maintaining good health for the host. Studies on the interplay between microbiota ...

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In general, fungi constitute a minor component of the entire gut microbiome. Recent shotgun metagenomics sequencing analysis has revealed that fungi consist of nearly 0.1% of the total microbes in the gut

Collectively, these studies suggest that gut mycobiome is relatively low in diversity as compared to bacterial communities, and the high prevalence of several fungal species identified across samples further suggested that a core mycobiota may exist in the gut.

Overall, the representation of fungi in healthy individuals is an insignificant proportion (~0.1%) of the entire microbiome as reported by various studies, with the three major fungal genera being Saccharomycyes, Candida, and Cladosporium