Extended Data Fig. 8: Abundance of the bhc gene cluster in Helgoland metagenomes.
From: Marine Proteobacteria metabolize glycolate via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle
a, The location of Helgoland Island approximately 40 km offshore the northern German coastline in the North Sea is marked with a red dot. The map was made with Ocean Data View 5.1.5 (R. Schlitzer, Ocean Data View, odv.awi.de, 2018). b, The long-term ecological research site ‘Kabeltonne’ (red dot: 54° 11.3′ N, 7° 54.0′ E) is located between Helgoland Island (left) and the small island Düne (right). Satellite image from WorldWind Explorer (B. Schubert, worldwind.earth/explorer, 2016–2018); the image was adapted to indicate the sampling site. c–e, Abundance of the bhc gene cluster (in RPKM) was calculated in 38 metagenomes from samples collected during the algal spring blooms of 2010 to 2012 in the North Sea close to Helgoland28. Six different sequences were investigated, five of which could be assigned to metagenome bins (Extended Data Fig. 6 and Supplementary Data 3), whereas the remaining, most abundant sequence (black) could not be binned successfully.
