Graphical representation of pathways that were significantly higher in symptomatic or in asymptomatic sea stars.

<p>Graphical representation of pathways that were significantly higher in symptomatic or in asymptomatic sea stars.</p

Twenty most abundant bacterial (A) and eukaryotic (B) phylogenetic affiliations amongst all four metatranscriptomic libraries prepared from <i>Pycnopodia helianthoides</i> tissues.

<p>Phylogenetic affilitation was determined by BLASTx analysis against the non-redundant (nr) database at NCBI. Affiliations were normalized by dividing the percentage of reads amongst all reads by the length of contigs assigned to that affilitation.</p

Asteroid holobiont metatranscriptome charactertics and assembly statistics for global analysis.

<p>All samples were from <i>Pycnopodia helianthoides</i> collected at the Seattle Aquarium on 10/26/13. A = Asymptomatic, S = Symptomatic.</p><p>Asteroid holobiont metatranscriptome charactertics and assembly statistics for global analysis.</p

Twenty most highly expressed functional annotations represented in sea star transcriptomes across all 4 libraries.

<p>Functional annotations were performed by BLASTx comparison against the non-redundant database at NCBI. Transcript frequencies were normalized by dividing percentage of reads associated with each annotation by contig length.</p

Similarity between overall metatranscriptomic profiles based on Manhattan Distance.

<p>Similarity was calculated based on gene-level annotations, and clustered by multidimensional scaling (MDS).</p