Fig. 5

Absolute abundance of the chicken intestinal mycobiota and microbiota. Absolute abundances (genome copy number/g digesta) of the fungal and bacterial populations are shown along the gastrointestinal tract of day-42 broilers (a) and in four intestinal segments on different sampling days (b) with 12 samples per bar. Statistics was performed with ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test. The fungal (red ) and bacterial (blue) bars not sharing a common superscript are considered significantly different (P < 0.05)