1. Box plots displaying the median, minimum, maximum, and first and third quartiles of the percentage of the 25 members of the core microbiome detected in all humpback whale blow samples, obtained from minimum entropy decomposition (17) nodes of bacterial and archaeal SSU rRNA genes.
Box plots displaying the median, minimum, maximum, and first and third quartiles of the percentage of the 25 members of the core microbiome detected in all humpback whale blow samples, obtained from minimum entropy decomposition (17) nodes of bacterial and archaeal SSU rRNA genes. The phyla or subphyla (for Proteobacteria) of each MED are listed below the box plot, the most detailed level of taxonomy available from the SILVA database (v.123) (52) is shown above, and the colors refer to sequences with homology to those previously recovered from marine mammals (blue), terrestrial mammals (green), or seawater (red). The color of MED 7188 is blue.
Amy Apprill et al. mSystems 2017; doi: /mSystems