Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance
Figure 7
Rank-abundance distributions for two empirical microbial community data sets from (A) human skin microbiome and (B) ocean bacterial communities.
Solid line indicates the expected relative abundance distribution under a lognormal distribution. Gray points are the observed relative gene abundances (gi) of sequences in each data set, and black points are the estimated relative organismal abundances ().