Duplicates in my collapsed table

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Hi Again!

I have collapsed my features table at level 6, that is genus. Ideally it must have all unique genera.
But the table I have, has duplicates.
For eg: let say genus "Prevotella". I have this genus with different abundance values for each sample.
I also have "[Prevotella]", in square brackets.it also has some values for each sample.

How is it possible?
Genus is same but still it is REPEATING.

Best
Nisha

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Hi @Nisha,
This is not really a duplicate, as described below. This is a feature of the reference taxonomy that you are using.

Square brackets are official NCBI taxonomic nomenclature, indicating known misclassifications in the reference taxonomy. See here for details:

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2 posts were split to a new topic: how reliable are my taxonomic classifications if I did not identify species?

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