Figure 2

Metagenomic sequencing average read count and alignment to reference nucleotide and protein databases by collection date. The average number of raw data reads (white), reads that do not align to tick genomes (light gray), reads aligning to the complete NT GenBank database by SNAP nucleotide alignment (dark gray), and reads aligning to the GenBank viral database by RAPsearch by protein aligment (black) are presented. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean.