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Fig. 2 | BMC Genomics

Fig. 2

From: The use of taxon-specific reference databases compromises metagenomic classification

Fig. 2

Microbial eukaryotes reported in the gut microbiome of hunter-gatherers and Western subjects using the CCMetagen pipeline and the NCBI nucleotide collection as reference. The graphs show the diversity and relative abundance of microbial eukaryotes only, with other organisms removed. Microbial eukaryotes were detected in 21 of 38 samples, although some of these are likely false-positives. The most abundant families observed across all samples are highlighted in bold

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