Figure 4

Temporal dynamics of the microbiome during the incubation process. OTU-level network diagram of 76 key OTUs responding to the quinoline degradaion process. Node size indicates the mean abundance of each OTU. Lines between nodes represent correlations between the nodes they connect, with the colour saturation indicating correlation magnitude: pink represents positive correlation, grey represents negative correlation. Only lines corresponding to correlations with a magnitude greater than 0.4 are drawn. The OTUs are grouped into 13 CAGs by permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) when P < 0.05. The plots show the abundance of each CAG on H0, H25, H80 and H44 in DNA and RNA level. Data in plots represent the total abundance of all OTUs in each CAG from each sample, which were then visualized by mean ± s.e.m.