Fig. 2

Relative abundancies of staphylococcal species within the mock community M1, determined by three different amplicon NGS schemes. Relative abundancies of staphylococcal species in the mock community M1 were determined with the rpsK, tuf1, and tuf2 schemes. Two DNA input amounts (50 ng and 0.05 ng per strain) were used. A) Stacked bar plots of relative abundances of mock community M1 samples. B) PCoA of Bray Curtis dissimilarity of the expected sample composition (=black) and mock community M1 analysed with the rpsK (=red), tuf1 (=green) and tuf2 (=blue) schemes