Figure 1
From: Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes
Metagenome-based relative abundance of NCLDV and cellular genomes in the TOP data set. Seventeen TOP metagenomes (0.2–1.6 μm size fraction) were pooled and analyzed as a single data set to generate this plot. Each dot in the plot represents the density of one of the marker genes used in this study (16 markers for NCLDVs and 35 markers for cellular genomes). The estimated abundance of NCLDVs genomes is slightly lower than that of Archaea genomes and amounts to approximately 3% of bacterial genomes.
