Fig. 3
From: Tick microbial associations at the crossroad of horizontal and vertical transmission pathways
Heatmap of tick microorganism species-to-species associations (co-infections) in ticks detected based on the HMSC model with the tick’s identity as a sampling unit, after controlling for the location where the tick was collected. Blue and red colours show parameters that are estimated to be positive and negative, respectively, with at least 0.95 posterior probability. Larger and darker circles indicate stronger associations. Details on all associations are provided in Additional file 1: Table S8