Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Nov 24;12(1):161–172. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.151

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2018 The Author(s)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PMC Copyright notice

Rank-abundance distribution of Symbiodinium taxa (that is, OTUs) in hard corals and other symbiotic anthozoans from the Arabian Seas (a) and correlation between presence in coral samples (measured by degree) and the number of reads per OTU (b). The power-law relationship indicates that the Symbiodinium community is comprised of few abundant and many rare members with a prevalence that scales sub-linearly with abundance, that is, Symbiodinium OTUs are not randomly distributed, but concentrated across hosts. (c) Richness, S, measured as the number of distinct OTUs and (d) number of reads of the most abundant OTUs as a function of the total number of reads. The fit shows S~N^0.5 and N_max~N^0.9.