Fig. 2.

(a) The distribution of bacterial taxa at the species level in tick samples collected from Eliska's body and from the field. Each bar depicts the mean relative abundance value of independent replicates. Species comprising more than 1% of reads are shown. Each bar depicts the mean relative abundance value of independent replicates (n = 4 ticks collected from the field; n = 3 ticks collected from Eliska's body). (b) LEfSe analysis of differentially abundant bacterial taxa between ticks collected from Eliska's body and ticks collected from the field. Only taxa meeting an LDA significant threshold of >2 are shown.