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Figure 3

From: Culture dependent and independent analysis of bacterial communities associated with commercial salad leaf vegetables

Figure 3

Similarities of bacterial communities associated with leafy salad vegetables as derived from pyrosequencing. Samples are organically (Org) and conventionally grown baby spinach (Spi), romaine lettuce (Rom), red leaf lettuce (Red), iceberg lettuce (Ice), and green leaf lettuce (Gre) and include intact and surface sterilized (S) subsamples. Community similarity is determined from Jaccard similarity scores followed by nonmetric multidimensional scaling (A) or UPGMA dendrogram construction (B). Analyses are run on subsamples of 1507 sequences from each sample, and show the mean outcome of 1000 individual subsampling runs.

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