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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Multi-level comparisons of cloacal, skin, feather and nest-associated microbiota suggest considerable influence of horizontal acquisition on the microbiota assembly of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks

Fig. 5

Group dispersion within and among microbial niches. Distances to the cluster centroids represent the variation among individuals within sample types and depicts how dispersion varies among host species and sample types. a Group dispersion in PCoA among individuals within each sample type. b Pairwise weighted UniFrac distances among sample types. Weighted UniFrac distances were calculated based on rarefied data (5000 reads/sample). a Letters denote Dunn’s contrasts (FDR q < 0.05) of median distances between pairs of sample types for woodlarks (lower case grey) and skylarks (capital red). Interspecific contrasts of mean distances are expressed below boxes of each sample type (ns = not significant). b Shaded/unshaded areas denote a base sample type, in which weighted UniFrac distance was pairwise compared with the associated sample types labelled along the x-axis. Statistics of between sample type comparisons are reported in Table 2

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