Fig 3. Relative abundance of the 15 most commonly-detected OTUs in this study, organized by tick species and life stage.

Taxa (order, family, and genus where available) are listed below the figure. Sample numbers are listed alphabetically within a life stage group and areindicated along the x-axis. Specific samples can be identified either by their labels along the x-axis or, if unlabeled, can be derived from the list of samples (S1 Table). Asterisks indicate two unengorged host-seeking female ticks that were collected during drag sampling; all other female ticks included in this figure were engorged and the time of processing.