Marshall the generalists! Generalize the marshallists!
While working more on the bacterial network stuff, Jen and I realized I was wrong. Yep, I was wrong on the internet. Namely, in my post on bacterial networks, I got the answer wrong on the abundance of OTUs with different degrees of specialization. I had a rowSum after inverting a matrix instead of before, producing wonky vertex sizes. Jen cleverly discovered it when totaling up some of the data by hand, and after alerting me to the issue I produced the following plot which doesn’t agree with the network at all:
So, I went back in, found the error, and now I give you the corrected network. Still very interesting - and it really shows that in the marsh, generalist bacteria dominate numerically, although they are relatively rare with far more specialists.
Updating the github soon…