Fig. 3: Testing VESPA for off-target amplification with fecal samples. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Testing VESPA for off-target amplification with fecal samples.

From: VESPA: an optimized protocol for accurate metabarcoding-based characterization of vertebrate eukaryotic endosymbiont and parasite assemblages

Fig. 3

a VESPA metabarcoding data shown as percent relative abundance for each organism category. Off-target reads are Bacteria + Archaea, Host, and Fungi. On-target reads are Other. Read numbers after quality filter (Q = 30) for each sample are above the bars. b Relative abundance of each organism category from (a) (n = 40 independent samples) displayed as mean ± SEM. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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