Fig. 3

Distribution of Thioclava sp. BHET1 (a-c) and Bacillus sp. BHET2 (d-f) in samples that were included in a recent plastisphere meta-analysis [33] or in the community succession experiments. ASVs that shared above 97% or above 99% identity with each of the Thioclava sp. BHET1 or Bacillus sp. BHET2 16S rRNA genes were identified and the relative abundance of all matches was summed to give the abundance shown here, where blue indicates a relative abundance of 0% and yellow that the relative abundance is above 3%. a and d show summed relative abundances within the PET succession experiment. b and e show the sample with the highest summed relative abundance in the plastisphere meta-analysis samples at each location. c and f show the relative abundance within different plastic or other sample types. Each coloured point represents the summed relative abundance within an individual sample whilst black markers show means for each plastic or sample type. The abundance of ASVs similar to Thioclava sp. BHET1 and Bacillus sp. BHET2 in the planktonic Tara oceans dataset are in Figure S5