Fig. 1
From: Microbiota fingerprints lose individually identifying features over time
Summary of evidence that occupant skin is the major source of household surface microbiota. Boxes extend from first to third quartiles; notches indicate median and 95% CI (estimated as median \( \pm 1.58\times \mathrm{I}\mathrm{Q}\mathrm{R}/\sqrt{n} \)); whiskers indicate highest value within third/first quartiles \( \pm 1.5\times \mathrm{I}\mathrm{Q}\mathrm{R} \); points indicate outliers. a Relative abundance in each surface sample of OTUs belonging to families identified by Dunn et al. [9] as indicative of human skin, human oral cavity, leaf, human stool and soil. b SourceTracker-estimated contribution of skin or air samples (same season) or negative control (blank) samples to microbiota in all household surface samples. c Weighted UniFrac distances between skin and surface samples (same season), showing distances between samples within the same residence or between different residences. A lower value indicates more similar microbiota