Identifying Currents in the Gene Pool for Bacterial Populations Using an Integrative Approach
Figure 7
Gene flow network identified in the N. meningitidis and N. lactamica populations.
To investigate the ancestral admixture of a certain population, one can look at all the arrows pointing at this population. A typical population contains the major sources of its own, denoted as a self-looping arrows, and small proportions of gene flow from other populations. For instance, population 29 has 73% of its own genetic makeup and 27% of the DNA introduced via gene flow from other populations. Two major sources of gene flow for population 29 are population 19 and population 11, with 3.3% and 6.9% in the contribution separately. The remaining 17.1% of genes comes from various sources while none of them contributes a proportion larger than 3% and therefore are not displayed due to the pruning.