Fig. 6

Relative abundance of bacterial OTUs in background controls and pooled samples. a Pools by chigger species (50 individuals per sample). b Mixed chigger species (50 individuals per sample) pooled by province. 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 2: Table S11