Figure 3. Comparison of results published by Finke & Suttle
(2019) to those generated by the vAMPirus workflow for the same virus
amplicon sequence dataset. The significant positive relationship between
salinity and viral diversity (Shannon diversity (H ) and richness)
reported by Finke and Suttle (2019, panels I and II) was reproduced by
vAMPirus (panels III-VI). Panels I and II display original results from
Finke and Suttle (2019), based on 97% amino acid similarity OTUs.
Panels III, IV, V, and VI include vAMPirus 97% pcASV results. Figures
from Finke and Suttle (2019) and vAMPirus analyses were slightly
modified for readability. For the vAMPirus analysis, which performs
comparisons among categorical sample groups set by the user, all samples
were assigned to either ‘high’ (>27.5) or ‘low’
(<27.5) salinity (practical salinity units; psu) groups.
Figures from Finke and Suttle (2019) reprinted with permission from
authors.