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Fig. 2 | Microbiome

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From: Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome

Fig. 2

DNA damage estimation analyses and authentication of environmental and subsistence-related taxa detected in the BRS palaeo-faecal specimen. a Dot plot indicating the occurrence of statistically significant C-T p values calculated for environmental- and subsistence-related taxa detected in BRS 1 (SC1), BRS2, BRS3, BRS4 and BRS5 (SC2) (circle sizes and colours represent mapped read-counts and p value significance) and ancient DNA fragmentation patterns shown within the first 25 bp from read ends for the genera bBacteroides and cShigella and the species dBos taurus and eSorghum bicolor (fragment size distributions for each taxon is indicated in the grey inset and labelled b, c, d and e) (Table S1, Fig. S3)

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