Fig. 3: Temperate versus virulent viral families in the infant gut.
From: Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut
a–e, Characteristics of temperate versus virulent VFCs in the data in terms of MRA (a), prevalence (b), genetic diversity as measured by unique branch length (c), number of metagenomic CRISPR spacer matches (d) and host range (number of host species) (e). f, Fit of the neutral community model, on the VFCs from Fig. 2b. g, Deriving neutral community model residuals from the log-transformed prevalences. h, Comparison of neutral community model residuals, showing that temperate VFCs tend to have positive residuals, whereas virulent VFCs tend towards negative residuals, indicating that temperate phages are present in lower abundance despite being found in more children, as compared with virulent phages. For a–e and h, n = 151 (118 temperate + 33 virulent). Box plot elements: centre line, median; box limits, upper and lower quartiles; whiskers, 1.5× IQR; points, outliers. Two-sided Wilcoxon test P values reported. For f and g, n = 248 (118 temperate + 33 virulent + 97 unknown).
