Figure 4
From: Diversity in gut bacterial community of school-age children in Asia
Comparison of alpha- and beta-diversities between BB- and P-type bacterial communities.
(a) Rarefaction curve of the number of OTUs observed in subjects for each type. The number of OTUs was determined in each participant at each sampling depth in 100-read increment. The means and standard deviation of the P-type group (n = 88) and the BB-type group (n = 215) are shown in the rarefaction plot. The number of phylotypes shared more than 50% within or across subjects in each group is represented in the inset Venn diagram. (b) Inter-individual similarity of fecal phylotype community between 303 subjects. Pairwise inter-individual similarity was calculated using the Morisita-Horn index and is represented by the heat map and boxplot. Each cell in the heat map, ordered according to BB- and P-type groups, represents the similarity level according to the color scale beside the box plot. Refer to Fig. 1b for definition of box plot.
