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Figure 4. Impact of increasing community species richness on the correlation between expected taxonomic and k-mer-based beta-diversity metric. Spearman correlations between the expected taxonomic and k-mer-based Bray-Curtis distance for simulated communities containing an increasing number of taxa, for a simulated sequencing depth of (A) 500K paired-reads; (B) 1 Million paired-reads; (C) 5 Million paired-reads; or (D) 10 Million paired-reads.