Fig. 4

Succession and microbial burden of the chicken core intestinal mycobiome. Mean relative abundances (%) of the ten most abundant core fungal ASVs are indicated in pie charts, while absolute abundances (genome copy number/g digesta) of the fungal and bacterial populations as well as the ratios of the fungal to bacterial genome copy number are also shown below each segment on each sampling day. Statistics was performed with ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test. The values in a row not sharing a common superscript are considered significantly different (P < 0.05)