FIGURE 1.

Relative sequence abundances of bacterial phyla and Staphylococcus species in skin samples. (A) Stacked bar plot of relative sequence abundances of the phyla present in each skin swab sample (n = 27). Relative sequence abundances were derived for all phyla present in any sample and the samples sorted by Bray-Curtis similarity. The predominant phyla were Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes. (B) Stacked bar plot of relative sequence abundances of the species present in each skin swab sample (n = 27). Relative abundances were derived for all species present in any sample and the samples sorted by Bray-Curtis similarity. The predominant species were S. aureus, S. epidermidis, S. hominis, S. saccharolyticus, S. sciuri, and S. capitis. The black bars represent the other species with very low relative sequence abundances.