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Fig. 2 | Microbiome

Fig. 2

From: Microbiota fingerprints lose individually identifying features over time

Fig. 2

Effect of sampling delay on microbiota matching and UniFrac distance between skin and surface samples. Sampling delay is the number of seasons’ difference between the collection of skin and surface samples, with a positive delay indicating surface samples were collected after skin samples, while a negative delay indicates skin samples were collected after surface samples. a Accuracy of SourceTracker-based microbiota matching of skin to surface samples. Accuracy is determined as the proportion of residences for which SourceTracker estimated the correct set of occupants’ skin microbiota as the major source for the residences’ surface microbiota. b Weighted and c unweighted UniFrac distances between skin and surface samples from the same household. Samples with smaller distances have more similar community compositions. Dark line represents the mean of distances between all pairwise combinations of one skin sample and one surface sample from the same household. Vertical grey lines give the standard deviations

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