Fig. 2: Impact of inoculum size on microbial richness and genome size.
From: Microbial model communities exhibit widespread metabolic interdependencies
A Relationship between the number of inoculated cells (low inoculum size = 0–100 cells/well) and the total number of cultures from which MAGs were assembled and binned. B Number of MAGs per culture for the low inoculum size (yellow) and C the high inoculum size (pink) microbial model communities. D Estimated genome size (circles) of MAGs from cultures (n = 527) in relation to the number of species growing in the same culture, and E average estimated genome size (triangles) of MAGs growing in the same culture. F Boxplot comparing the average estimated genome size of species-clusters from cultures (n = 72) and those from the environment (n = 668). Statistical significance was assessed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Boxplots show the median and the interquartile range (IQR), with whiskers indicating 1.5× IQR.
