Figure 5.

Comparison of 16S rRNA Amplicon and Metagenome Abundances

The tree represents the NCBI taxonomy for all taxonomically classified OTUs from the rhizosphere samples of the 16S rRNA survey as well as all metagenome bins, resolved down to the order rank. The branches of the tree do not reflect evolutionary distances. The position of the dots in the tree corresponds to the taxonomic placement of the representative sequences in the NCBI taxonomy. The size of the dots illustrates the average relative abundances per sample of each taxa (log scale). Blue dots represent abundances as found in the shotgun metagenome classification, red dots correspond to abundances from the 16S rRNA amplicon data, and green depicts an overlap.