Fig. 2: The relationship between climate conditions and appearance of rpoZ variants. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: The relationship between climate conditions and appearance of rpoZ variants.

From: Evolutionary selection of biofilm-mediated extended phenotypes in Yersinia pestis in response to a fluctuating environment

Fig. 2

a average climate conditions during the periods in which the rpoZ variants were generated (as per the branch lengths of the phylogenetic tree, plus a year prior to account for cascading effects of climate on hosts and vectors to plague), compared with the climate conditions for rpoZ references. b correcting the observed P-value of <0.0092 for the pattern of low average monthly precipitation and temperature observed in panel a for multiple testing of eight related climate hypothesis, using permutation testing (orange line) as opposed to the Bonferroni correction (which assumes unrelated tests). The corrected P-value is P < 0.046.

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