Fig. 3From: Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencingPCoA and class and genus level classification of caecal microbiomes from chicken breeds and lines reared at locations 1 and 2 (Anand and Tamil Nadu). Only sequencing reads produced using primer P2 were used for this analysis. a PCoA using the Bray-Curtis method in PAST. b Box plot indicating differences in the ranked distances in each group (see Additional file 10 for the pairwise comparison of P values by ANOSIM). c, d abundance of bacteria in the caeca of chicken lines at class and genus level respectively. Only classes and genera with abundance > 1.0% in any of the chicken lines was plotted. A-, C-, R- and K- represent the Aseel, Cobb400, Ross 308 and Kadaknath chicken breeds/lines respectively. -A sampled at location 1 in Anand, -T sampled at location 2 in Tamil NaduBack to article page