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. 2019 Jan 30;10(1):501.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07950-z.

Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes

Hend Alrasheed  1 , Rong Jin  1 , Joshua S Weitz  2   3
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Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes

Hend Alrasheed et al. Nat Commun. .

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Relationships between virus abundances, virus–host ratios (VHRs), and host abundances. a Genus-level relationships, virus vs. host abundances. b Genus-level relationships, VHRs vs. host abundances. c Phylum-level relationships, virus vs. host abundances. d Phylum-level relationships, VHRs vs. host abundances. Panels b and d are replotted from ref. . The absence of a relationship between original, untransformed virus and host abundances (see panels a and c) should appear as a −1 slope when comparing VHR to host abundances (see panels b and d). A −1 slope is shown as a guide to readers in panels b and d
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Violin plots of the 95% randomized confidence intervals (CIs) of the slope for relationships between virus and host abundances. a–c CIs in genus datasets. d CIs in phylym datasets. In each panel, red dashed lines indicate the slope of the original sample. Dark vertical lines indicate the 2.5, 50, and 97.5 percentiles. Datasets with slopes with p ≥ 0.05 are shown in gray violin plots and datasets with slopes with p < 0.05 are shown in blue violin plots. The number of data points for each dataset is indicated in the parenthesis below the genus/phylum name
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