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Fig. 3 | Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood- or soil-feeding higher termites

Fig. 3

Similarity of the functional potential of the microbiota in different gut compartments. The analysis is based on non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of Bray-Curtis similarities using the relative abundances of genes in different functional categories (COGs), weighted by gene length and read depth in the respective assembly (see Additional file 2: Table S2). The shape of the data points differentiates wood and litter feeders (circle) from humus and soil feeders (square); numbers indicate gut compartments P1, P3, and P4

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