Fig. 6: Correlation patterns between microalgae and their associated bacteria and fungi on differently colored snowfields. | The ISME Journal

Fig. 6: Correlation patterns between microalgae and their associated bacteria and fungi on differently colored snowfields.

From: The microbiome of alpine snow algae shows a specific inter-kingdom connectivity and algae-bacteria interactions with supportive capacities

Fig. 6

Distinct correlations of microalgae and their associated bacteria (a) and basidiomycetous yeasts (b) were observed for identified features summarized at genus level. Correlations were calculated for microalgal (Chlorophyceae, Chrysophyceae) and bacterial features with an abundance ≥0.1% in the snowfield samples (a). To identify correlations between algae and basidiomycetous yeasts, features assigned to Basidiomycota were manually blasted against the NCBI nucleotide collection. Features with the same taxonomic assignment at genus level were combined. The analyses are based on the Kendall’s tau rank correlation.

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