Fig. 3: Differences in abundance of microbial taxa based on host vertical migration status.

Overview of differentially abundant ASVs grouped by microbial family between diel vertical migrators and non-migrators (A) and their respective functional characteristics as inferred by FaproTax (B). A total of 100 ASVs showed significant differences in abundance based on a zero-inflated log-normal model at an alpha value < 0.1, with 57 and 43 being overrepresented in non-migrators and migrators, respectively. Dot sizes are scaled to the number of ASVs in each family (A) or the number of ASVs with particular metabolic functions (B).