Fig. 4From: Specialisation events of fungal metacommunities exposed to a persistent organic pollutant are suggestive of augmented pathogenic potentialScoring PCP assimilators within the metacommunity of fungi confronted with PCP: a OTUs corresponding to early-, steady-, late- and non- assimilators by the spatial ordination of the normalised OTUs upon multidimensional scaling (MDS) of the constructed Bray-Curtis similarity matrix. b The 17 OTUs identified as the most abundant 13C-labelled assimilators. The OTUs capable of assimilating 13C-labelled were separated in the heavy DNA fraction by isopycnic ultracentrifugation. Major alterations in the abundance of the normalised OTUs were identified using the R-based package DEseq2Back to article page