FIGURE 4.
Bivariate scatterplots showing the Pearson’s correlation of the human fecal S. parasanguinis concentrations determined by metagenomic sequencing, qPCR with primer pair Spa146f-Spa525r, and qPCR with primer pair Spa93f-Spa525r. The correlation coefficient (r), p-value, and the number of fecal samples (n) are shown in each plot. The relative abundances of S. parasanguinis in the metagenomic sequencing dataset were calculated using MetaPhlAn (Segata et al., 2012) in our previous study (Zhang et al., 2015). (A,C,E) The correlation among the data of all 22 tested fecal samples. (B,D,F) The correlation among the data after the removal of one fecal sample containing extraordinarily higher level of S. parasanguinis than other samples.