Fig. 6: Detection of the Azoamicaceae in 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing datasets.

Detection of the Azoamicaceae 16S rRNA gene sequences in publicly available 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing datasets shows a global distribution across all continents. Points represent amplicon datasets, and are colored according to their affiliation with the Azoamicaceae genome that have > 95% 16S rRNA gene identity to reads in the dataset. The hotspots in the global north likely reflect sampling bias.