Sixteen microbiome libraries are not six hundred replicates

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What changed

The microbiome backlog now records an authenticated diurnal study and its open supplement while keeping abstract-level results out of the evidence registry and care guides.

Why it changed

The abstract reports gut material from 600 shrimp across four clock times, but the open figures show four sample points and four rarefaction curves per time, for 16 visible sequencing samples. Every displayed pairwise alpha-diversity p value ranges from 0.13 to 0.83, so a descriptively higher midnight value is not a supported feeding optimum. Without complete methods, pooling and tank independence are unknown, predicted pathways are not measured digestion, and genus-level 16S detection cannot diagnose infection, virulence or disease.

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