Differential abundance testing with ANCOM confusion

In the “Moving Pictures” tutorial, ANCOM analysis has two results[“Moving Pictures” tutorial — QIIME 2 2020.8.0 documentation].But, they are different.
result1


result2
In my mind, the taxonomy name of result2 points to the ASV id of result1.
I am confused

Hi!
The ASV and Taxa results are not necessarily the same, since several ASVs, assigned to the same taxa, could demonstrate completely different behaviors and abundances.

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thanks for your reply.
SO, which result is used more frequently or reasonable?

It depends on your experiment design, but actually you can use both results.
I prefer ASVs results since they provide a higher resolution for your analysis, but it is not a mistake describe both results on different levels in your report/paper.

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