Extended Data Fig. 3: Seasonality is driven by medium range abundance contigs.
From: Long-term stability and Red Queen-like strain dynamics in marine viruses
Similar to Fig. 2, these depict the Bray-Curtis distance vs time lag between samples, but here divided into different fractions of the rank abundance curve. The left column of graphs starts from the bottom (rare) part of the curve, with an increasing fraction of the contigs included in graphs displayed from top to bottom. The right column of graphs starts with the top most abundant contigs, with an increasing fraction of the curve included in graphs from top to bottom. Note on the right that as more members are included from the long rare tail of the rank-abundance curve, consistent seasonality increases and average similarity decreases. Generally, the rarer contigs show stronger seasonality than the most abundant ones. Because Bray Curtis similarity is proportionately more affected by the more abundant organisms in general, these indicate that middle-high percentiles (top 50th-75th) may dominate the collective community seasonality. Bottom 5% n = 4587 viral contigs, bottom 10 % n = 7092, bottom 25 % n = 12031, bottom 50% n = 16741, bottom 75% n=19093. Top 5% n = 61, Top 10% n=168, Top 25% n= 814, top 50% n = 3166, top 75% n = 7876.
