Fig. 3From: Biogeography, succession, and origin of the chicken intestinal mycobiomeSuccessional changes in diversity and relative abundance of the chicken intestinal mycobiota throughout a 42-day production cycle. The digesta was collected from four different intestinal segments at seven different time points with 12 broilers per time point. a Shannon Index showing α-diversity of the intestinal mycobiome. Significance was determined using Kruskal–Wallis test and post hoc Mann–Whitney U test. The bars not sharing a common superscript are considered significantly different (P < 0.05). PCoA of weighted (b) and unweighted UniFrac distances (c) was plotted to display β-diversity of the intestinal mycobiome at different ages. R and P values were calculated using ANOSIM with 999 permutations and indicated in each plot. d Mean relative abundances (%) of the ten most abundant fungal ASVs at different ages in four different intestinal segmentsBack to article page