Fig. 4

Temporal dynamics of microbial order abundances at carcass 1 and 2. a Heatmap visualisation of the relative abundance for the 50 most abundant orders at each time-point for carcass 1 and 2. b Barplots that show the log5 average fold change of the raw reads counts across the time-series for the 50 taxa shown in figure (a). The taxa in the heatmaps (a) are sorted using the order abundances in the control sample of Carcass1 at day 0 (Control). In order to visualise the relative abundances (a) values were log5 normalised and then scaled so that the sum of each column equals 1. Eukaryotic orders are marked with *, the remaining orders are bacterial. The bottom seven entries have not been classified to lower phylogeny than Kingdom, Phylum or Class