Barnesiella intestinihominis is a gut commensal bacterium noted for substantial intraspecific metabolic diversity 1.
Metabolic ecotypes
In the pathway-capability analysis, Barnesiella intestinihominis and alistipes-onderdonkii were the species with the most ecotypes, with 8 ecotypes each. The ecotypes are inferred computationally from metabolic pathway capability rather than measured directly, so the count depends on the clustering approach (see ecotype-clustering-validity) 1.
The central discoveries digest also names Barnesiella intestinihominis among the top-ecotyped species, again with 8 ecotypes, alongside Alistipes onderdonkii (8) 2.