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Figure 2 | Microbiome

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From: Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact

Figure 2

Surfaces harbored significantly different bacterial communities and were linked to differential human contact. (a) Bacterial communities were constrained by four different surface types using distance-based redundancy analysis (DB-RDA; constrained inertia = 11.4%) and were significantly different among types based on Canberra taxonomic distances (P = 0.001 from permutational multivariate analysis of variation). (b) Bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from DB-RDA are shown weighting communities in the same four primary directions. The first and second axes from DB-RDA are used in both ordinations (CAP 1 and CAP 2) . The strongest ten weighting OTUs for each surface type are highlighted if they were also significant indicator OTUs (all P values <0.05). (c) All samples were compared to potential source environments using principal components analysis (PCA), and the first principal component (37.8% of variance explained) was used as a surrogate for community similarity to either phyllosphere or human skin bacterial communities. Boxplots delineate (from bottom) minimum value, Q1, median (Q2), Q3, maximum value; notches approximate 95% confidence around median value, and outliers fall outside of the quartile range. Letters above each box indicate significant groupings after Tukey’s hones significant difference (HSD) test (adjusted P value <0.05).

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