Crowdsourcing help with an interdisciplinary research challenge – hoping to submit (awesome!) methods paper to statistics journal. Statisticians call phenomenon X. Target audience for method is microbiome scientists, who call phenomenon Y. What should we call it throughout paper?

I loathe that I have to worry about this, but with stat reviewers so pedantic and peer review taking so long, I'm leaning towards calling it X. Ergh.

Thoughts?