Long-term seasonal and interannual variability of marine aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria

摘要

Alphadiversity distribution of the AAP community for each month colored by season. Richness (number of observed ASVs) and Shannon indexes obtained through amplicon sequencing over a decade (2004–2013) are shown in the top and middle panels, respectively. Each boxplot presents the median and interquartile range of the distribution of 10 data points shown in grey (with the exception of March, with 9 data points). Whiskers represent 1.5 times the interquartile range. The bottom panel shows the Shannon index values obtained from the metagenomic dataset (2011–2013). The colored dots represent the mean monthly values and the bars the standard error of the mean for the 3-year period