Fig. 5

Relative abundance of bacterial OTUs in background controls and individual chiggers. a subfamily Gahrliepiinae and subfamily Trombiculinae. b Tribe Schoengastiini. c Tribe Trombiculini. The data are filtered; OTUs that represented < 10% in a sample were combined in “others” (light grey) to aid visualisation. Source data are included in Additional file 3