Additional file 3 of Quantitative microbial population study reveals geographical differences in bacterial symbionts of Ixodes ricinus

Additional file 3: Table S4. Read counts for different taxa, including taxonomy per sample. Negative control samples included. Figure S1. Ordination of community composition with uncorrected abundances. Figure S2. Rarefaction curve of samples coloured by quartile of total bacterial load. Figure S3. Abundances of bacterial phyla separated by quartiles of total bacterial load (16S rRNA content in ng/μL), unscaled (a) or scaled by total bacterial load (b). Table S5. Figure S4. Correlation of Shannon diversity of the unrarefied data to (a) sequencing depth and (b) total bacterial load. Figure S5. Correlation of total bacterial load to (a) sequencing depth and (b) uncorrected count of contaminant sequences. Figure S6. The top 10 genera of negative controls versus the 25% lowest biomass samples.