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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: The effect of the timing of exposure to Campylobacter jejuni on the gut microbiome and inflammatory responses of broiler chickens

Fig. 5

Estimates of α-diversity and richness for TEG and TLG microbial communities from cecal contents. Inverse Simpsons indices (a, b) and species richness estimates (c, d) from 16,319 subsampled sequences for the non-colonized control (gray bars) and C. jejuni-colonized (dark gray bars) chickens. The charts are presented with respect to the age of the birds colonized at either 6 days (TEG2) or 20 days (TLG2). a Inverse Simpsons index of TEG1 and TEG2. b Inverse Simpsons index of TLG1 and TLG2. c OTU counts of TEG1 and TEG2. d OTU counts from TLG1 and TLG2. Data are presented as a box and whisker plot (in the style of Tukey). The solid black line indicates the median, and the top and bottom of the shaded boxes indicate the 25th and 75th percentiles. Whiskers indicate maximum and minimum values, unless these values exceed 1.5-fold the interquartile range. Outlying data are plotted as individual markers

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