Figure 4.

Abundance of (a) phnJ gene (K06163) and (b) Marivita from metagenomic sediment samples from various saline to hypersaline environments. Abundances are gene counts that were extracted from publicly available metagenomes on IMG/M using the “Statistical Analysis” tool and selecting feature type “KO” for (a) and “Genus” for (b) (see methods). Highlighted in red are the restored saltern, reference wetland, and the two unrestored salterns (R2, R1) described in Zhou et al. (2021). Note that open ocean sediments are separated from coastal ocean sediments. Furthermore, coastal wetlands from the San Francisco Bay and Delta (“Coastal wetland (SF)”) are separated from other coastal wetland samples due to their proximity to our sampling sites.