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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Trophic level drives the host microbiome of soil invertebrates at a continental scale

Fig. 5

Phylogenetic distribution of the most abundant 258 unique bacterial taxa in the soil fauna microbiome. The innermost ring 1 indicates microbial classification at the phylum level. Black shading on ring 2 indicates for each bacterial taxa whether there is a representative isolate and a genome match at the ≥ 97% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity level. Rings 3 and 4 indicate the relative proportion of each bacterial taxa in different soil fauna microbiomes and different trophic level of animals, respectively. We normalized the difference in relative abundance across all the OTUs based on the total relative abundance of each bacterial taxa across all the samples. The “TL” indicates the trophic level of soil fauna based on natural 15N fractionation of animal body tissue. The red dots indicate that unassigned taxa with no genome representatives were exclusively found in potworms, oribatid mites, and predatory mites

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