Figure 3From: Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea Clustering analysis of bacterial communities in the SCS and other oceans. Hierarchical clustering was performed using complete linkage on Bray–Curtis distance measures of 94 bacterial classes assigned to tag sequences of 16S rRNA hypervariable V6 region. Only the abundant classes (averaged from all samples) are included in the stacked bar chart for clarity. The remaining classes are collapsed into one group denoted as “Other”.Back to article page