Fig. 5: Global distribution patterns of the P-acquisition vOTUs and AMGs identified in this study.

a Map showing the sampling sites of the global soil study (from a published global topsoil metagenome dataset)³⁰ and the numbers of P-acquisition vOTUs of our study that were also detected in individual sampling sites of the global soil study. Circles represent the sampling sites and are colored based on habitat types. Circle sizes reflect the numbers of P-acquisition vOTUs detected in the corresponding sampling sites. Circles at the same coordinates are stacked according to their sizes, with the largest one at the bottom. *, the value in the bracket following a given habitat type represents the percentage of samples with P-acquisition vOTUs in that habitat type. The world map was generated by the function map_ data (“world”) in the R package ggplot2. b Histograms showing the total numbers of the P-acquisition vOTUs detected in individual habitat types of the global soil study. c Histograms showing the numbers of the global soil samples where the eight kinds of P-acquisition AMGs carried by the vOTUs shared by our study and the global soil study were detected. Habitat types are indicated by different colors. Detailed information is provided in Supplementary Data 15,16.