Fig. 7: Investigation of proteome similarity within genus-level classifications.
From: Freshwater genome-reduced bacteria exhibit pervasive episodes of adaptive stasis
The upper panel displays the taxonomic labels of seven identified genera containing at least two species (out of the 30 analyzed species clusters), where species with small and large genomes are shown in blue and yellow, respectively. The Y axis shows the average amino acid similarity values for SPs (in orange), CPs (in green), and whole proteomes (in grey) within each genus (g.Nanopelagicales n = 110; g.Planktophila n = 379; g.Polynucleobacter n = 171; g.UBA10416 n = 404; g-UBA3006 n = 99; g.UBA8137 n = 455; g.UBA953 n = 108). The blue line represents the average amino acid similarity value of 65% used to define genus-level categories. The central line across the boxplots identifies the median, marking the dataset’s midpoint. The box itself demarcates the interquartile range, extending from the first quartile to the third quartile, encapsulating the central 50% of the data. The whiskers project from the box to the furthest data points not categorized as outliers and show the spread of the main body of the dataset. Raw data is provided as a Source Data file.
