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Fig. 2 | Microbiome

Fig. 2

From: SalmoSim: the development of a three-compartment in vitro simulator of the Atlantic salmon GI tract and associated microbial communities

Fig. 2

Calculated alpha-diversity metrics within SalmoSim system over time. The figure represents different alpha diversity outputs at different sampling time points (days) from SalmoSim system. Time point 0 represents microbial community composition within initial SalmoSim inoculum from the real salmon; time points 2–20 identify samples from SalmoSim system fed on Fishmeal diet, and time points 22–40 identify samples from SalmoSim system fed on Fishmeal-free diet. The dotted vertical line between days 0–20 represents average alpha diversity values measured in real salmon fed on Fishmeal diet, and dotted vertical line between days 22–40 represents average alpha diversity values measured in real salmon fed on Fishmeal-free diet. Finally, the horizontal dashed lined represents average effective richness (A) and effective Shannon diversity (B) in real salmon individual gut compartments fed on different diets (n = 3 fish/feed and gut compartment), and the shaded region around the horizontal dashed line represents the standard deviation of the values measured within real salmon samples fed on the different diets. A visually represents effective richness (number of OTUs), and B represents effective Shannon diversity. The lines above bar plots represent statistically significant differences between different time points. The asterisks flag the levels of significance: one asterisk (*) for p values between 0.05 and 0.01, two asterisks (**) for p values between 0.01 and 0.001, and three asterisks (***) for p values below 0.001

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