Fig. 5: Temporal dynamics of soil carbon turnover, AMGs, and microbial functional genes after active and inactive virus inoculation. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Temporal dynamics of soil carbon turnover, AMGs, and microbial functional genes after active and inactive virus inoculation.

From: DNA viral community enhances microbial carbon fixation capacity via auxiliary metabolic genes in contaminated soils

Fig. 5

Changes of SOC (a), SIC (b), CO2 (c) and 13C-SOC (d) after viral inoculation. Variation of AMGs, including rbcL1 (e), ppdK1 (f)and TKT1 (g), and microbial C-fixation genes (h) after viral inoculation. Microbial C-fixation genes in each metabolic pathway were first averaged to derive the within-pathway mean (e.g., average FPKM for Calvin cycle genes), followed by a secondary averaging of pathway-specific means to mitigate gene count bias. Boxes show medians/quartiles. Whiskers extend to the most extreme values within 1.5 interquartile ranges. Points shown beyond the whiskers are outliers. Statistical significance for data analysis was assessed using a two-sided t-test (n  =  5).

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