Extended Data Fig. 8. Longitudinal Abundances of Important Features.

The 6 most important SILVA level-7 taxa as determined in the 16S rRNA data from the a) skin of the face, b) skin of the hip, c) soil associated with the hip, and d) soil associated with the face for random forest regression models for predicting postmortem interval. Data plotted by the taxa and the normalized abundance change over ADD at each geographic location. Data plotted with loess regression and 16S rRNA soil face, soil hip, skin face, and skin hip datasets contain n = 600, 616, 588, and 500 biologically independent samples, respectively. Data are presented as mean values +/− 95% CI.