Fig. 4: Prevalence and pathogenicity of microbes in pangolins with different characteristics.

The columns from left to right in the heat map are pangolin species, and the colors of each grid in the heat map represent the number of sequences. The colored lines in each grid represent the categories of pangolin from which the microbe was detected. Violet horizontal lines represent wild pangolins, green oblique lines represent trafficked pangolins, orange vertical lines represent captive pangolins, and dark gray oblique lines represent unknown source of pangolins. The pathogenicity of each microbe is listed on the right side of the heat map, including humans (blue), pangolins (red), other animals (yellow), and unknown (green) pathogenic. Positive rate and 95% confidence interval (CI) for each microbe are provided at the end of each row. The error bars represent the 95% CIs of the positive rates. The center points for the error bars represent the positive rates calculated by the meta-analysis. The open circles represent a single positive rate without a 95% CI. The study size and positive rate with 95% CI are provided in Supplementary Table 4. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.