The designers seem to have clustered things by color in a way that roughly mimics a map of the world — a landscape of continents — which is about the only thing that makes it readable.
Here we simply demonstrate that the panel of SNPs selected by our algorithm with K = 2 gives an effective set of informative markers to distinguish seven continents, which is not necessarily optimal.
The halophile-dominated ocean is more reflective at most visible wavelengths than the continents, which is the opposite of modern Earth's spectral contrast between land and ocean.
Notably, clade 2.2 comprises isolates from more widespread geographic areas (3 continents), which is likely to reflect movement of the virus through long-distance spread as a result of poultry trade or wild bird migration (2, 3, 6, 7 ).
The easterly trade winds, having made a long passage over the warm oceans, bring plentiful rains to the east coasts of the subtropical landmasses, but the west coasts and the interiors of the continents, which are often sheltered by mountain ranges, are very dry.
Furthermore, VST is likely higher as it moves into deeper continents which are typically more mountainous causing a larger temperature variation.
Surprisingly, Early Jurassic dinosaurs from around the world are very similar, a reflection of the geographic continuity between all of the continents, which were then part of the single supercontinent of Pangaea.
In general, countries grouped within continents which were more 'westernized' (Americas and Europe) had a greater mean "deficit" of physicians (-4.3 and -6.3 physicians per 10,000) than other continents.
But these companies need no introduction to the continent, which is home to 7 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies.
