Fig. 4
From: High resolution time series reveals cohesive but short-lived communities in coastal plankton
The most closely related OTUs tend to peak in different communities suggesting ecological differentiation. Shown are overlapped histograms of pairs of representative dbc-OTUs falling within the same (blue bars) or different (red bars) communities. Green bars represent the sum of blue and red bars. When OTUs are defined with high sequence similarity (>97%), they preferentially occur in different communities, for both bacteria (a) and Eukarya (b). Observed distributions were significantly different from a random community membership assignment (χ2 goodness of fit tests: χ2(1) = 3042, p-value < 2.2e−16, for bacteria; and χ2(1) = 14,735, p-value < 2.2e−16, for Eukarya)
