Fig. 4
From: Assembly processes and functional diversity of marine protists and their rare biosphere
Relationship between protistan phylogeny and traits. Phylogenetic distance between OTUs was computed using the V4 region of the 18 S rDNA and following ref [42]. Trait distance was computed based on OTUs’ traits (annotated with our trait database) and Gower’s distance. The results originate from 999 subsets of 100 OTUs (each subset representing two distance matrices of 10 000 cells). Pearson correlation and a linear model were computed between the two distance matrices of each subset, the coefficients and linear model displayed correspond to the mean coefficients across the 999 subsets. This procedure was repeated for all protists annotated with traits (41 614 OTUs), only phototrophic protists (18 997) and only heterotrophic protists (25 895)