FIG 2.

The C. tuberculostearicum species complex across skin metagenomic data sets and body sites. (A) A phylogeny of 187 distinct Corynebacterium representative genomes is shown with the C. tuberculostearicum species complex highlighted in gold. The color strip indicates species which were represented in the StrainGST database that we used to detect strains/species within metagenomes (gray). Bars correspond to the number of individuals from three skin-related metagenomic studies which were found to feature a species, with coloring representing the study. Only metagenomes corresponding to healthy controls from the Byrd et al. (22) study are considered. (B) The proportion of subjects from specific body sites of healthy adults with C. kefirresidentii, C. tuberculostearicum, and C. aurimucosum type E detected is shown based on metagenomes from the Oh et al. (3) and Swaney et al. (4) studies. The total number of subjects assessed for each body site is indicated in parentheses. BioRender was used for generating anatomical illustrations.