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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Microbial colonization and persistence in deep fractured shales is guided by metabolic exchanges and viral predation

Fig. 5

Viral-host dynamics in the STACK shale play. A Visual representation of each of the 24 STACK MAGs “relevance” and viral connections. Relevance is evaluated by the number of samples where a MAG is present, and the maximum relative abundance that each MAG reaches (considering any given sample). Each MAG is depicted as a colored circle, with a solid line indicating the presence of CRISPR-Cas viral defense system and dashed the absence of one. Small, connected circles represent the viral linkages, and the dashed gray line connecting virus-to-virus indicates an identical spacer sequence (but likely not an identical virus). B Evaluation of viral and host dynamics where linkages could be made. Relative abundances of hosts and the summed relative abundance of their linked viruses are plotted for each timepoint that the host is present, revealing that the most abundant viruses are associated with the most abundant microbial hosts

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