Figure 7.

Metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) of putative dilbit-degraders. Only MAGs that contain key genes for hydrocarbon degradation and also showed a significant enrichment on dilbit-coated beads are shown. (A) Taxonomic classification of MAGs based on detected phylogenetic marker genes. Bins marked with an asterisk (*) did not contain marker genes and were instead classified based on the taxonomic classification of the detected key genes for hydrocarbon degradation. Taxonomic groups that are present more than once are color-coded. (B) Presence of key hydrocarbon genes in the MAGs. (C) Mean relative abundances of MAGs expressed as the log10 of the MAGs' RPKM (Reads Per Kilobase of genome size per Million mapped reads) values. (D) Cluster analysis based on the Pearson distance between the relative abundances of the MAGs, i.e. MAGs with similar abundance profiles will cluster together. Populations of ‘early degraders’, ‘late degraders and ‘continuous degraders" were identified based on the formed clusters and are color-coded.