Reply to: Microbial dark matter could add uncertainties to metagenomic trait estimations

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. gabin.piton@inrae.fr.
• ² Eco&Sols, INRAE-IRD-CIRAD-SupAgro, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. gabin.piton@inrae.fr.
• ³ Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁶ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
• ⁷ Gut Microbes and Health, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK.
• ⁸ Digital Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK.