Fig. 6

Venn diagrams detailing overlap of significant relationships found in the CDI dataset (A) between MI estimators and (B) between MI estimators and correlation measures for the case group. Only the top 20 most significant pairs of each metric are used in the construction of each diagram. (C, D, E) Scatter plots and accompanying density estimations for various relationships found by MI estimators. In each case, there is evidence of an exploitative interaction type, supported by the simultaneous shift of one genus to larger abundances (Enterobacter, Lactobacillus, Escherichia-Shigella) and the other to smaller abundances (Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Romboutsia) when comparing controls (blue) to cases (red). Abundance data is plotted after a \(\text{log}\left(x+1\right)\) transform