Figure 3

Number of exclusive or shared human pathogenic bacteria among the analyzed hypervariable regions (V2 to V9) (a) and geographic areas (i.e., rookeries) (b). To facilitate Venn diagram interpretation, the V9 region was not included. However, an additional exclusive human pathogenic species, Salmonella enterica, should only be considered for the V9 region. The heat map is based on a log2 transformation of the relative abundances of the pathogenic species detected for each hypervariable region (V2 to V9) and between all sampled rookeries (Rasito, Partido, Machos, Granito, Coloradito, and Cantiles).