Solutions to calculate Morisita index

Hello all: we submitted a paper where we compared and reported beta diversity differences between our 2 study groups (UniFrac weighted, unweighted, bray Curtis, ),but one of the reviewers insisted that we also use Morisita index. I could not find anything about Morisita in the new versions of QIIME2 (only found something online in QIIME).

I was suggested to seek input here. Is anyone aware of a community plugin or does anyone have any recommendations for alternative tools that can be used for these calculations?

Thank you!

The R package abdiv can do this:

I also found this python script that implements the Morisita index:

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