Fig 1.
Abundance and geographical distribution of MGEs classes per sampled site.
(a) Abundance of total transcripts identified as MGEs and total transcripts identified as ARGs (Guillen-Chable et al., 2022) in sample sites. (b) Distribution of the five classes of MGEs in the samples sites of Palmar, Sisal, Progreso y Dzilam. (c) Study area, Yucatan coast.
Fig 2.
Abundance of total MGEs and correlation with ARGs per sampled site.
(a) Kruskall–Wallis and Wilcox test of MGEs abundance in the sampled sites. (b) Correlation Pearson test for assessing the relationship between abundance of MGEs and ARGs across study sites.
Fig 3.
Distribution of MGE classes by integration in the bacterial genome as monocistronic or polycistronic units.
(a) Distribution of total MGEs in monocistronic and polycistronic units per site. (b) Distribution of MGE classes in monocistronic and polycistronic units per site.
Fig 4.
Distribution of MGEs classes per specie and sampling location.
MGEs classes associated with the species found at the (a) Palmar, (b) Sisal, (c) Dzilam, and (d) Progreso sites.
Fig 5.
ARG classes and their mechanisms of action associated with MGE.
(a) Distribution of ARG classes associated with MGEs by study site. (b) Distribution of antibiotic resistance mechanisms associated with MGEs by study site.