Correlation network of microbiome communities in IDS and control groups displayed at the genus level. The SparCC (sparse correlations for compositional data) approach has been used to define network associations. This approach assumes a sparse network and performs iterations to identify taxa pairs that are outliers to background correlations. Each node represents a taxon and its size is proportional to the number of connections. The green and orange colors on the nodes indicate the taxa mean relative abundance in the control and IDS groups, respectively. Taxa are only connected if the correlation meets a p value cutoff of 0.05 and a correlation coefficient of 0.3. Key correlations with the Staphylococcus genus are highlighted in the figure with blue and red lines, representing negative and positive correlations, respectively.
