Genomic characterization of the species complex, a ubiquitous member of the human skin microbiome.

is a predominant genus in the skin microbiome, yet its genetic diversity on skin is incompletely characterized and lacks a comprehensive set of reference genomes. Our work aims to investigate the distribution of species on the skin, as well as to expand the existing genome reference catalog to enable more complete characterization of skin metagenomes. We used V1-V3 16S rRNA gene sequencing data from 14 body sites of 23 healthy volunteers to characterize diversity and distribution across healthy human skin.