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Fig. 3 | Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection

Fig. 3

Long-lasting modification in C. gigas microbiota composition occurred following exposure to microorganism-enriched seawater. Principal coordinate analyses (PCoA) representing dissimilarities between samples using the Bray-Curtis distance matrix performed on 16S barcoding data obtained from oysters’ larvae (a, c) sampled at day 2 (D2, dots) and day 10 (D10, triangles) and from juvenile oysters (b, d) sampled at day 58 (D58, dots) and day 120 (D120H0, triangles) for generation F1 (a, b) and F2 (c, d). Differences between ME-exposed (pink) and control (blue) oysters were statistically significant for both larval (days 2 and 10) (p-val = 0.005 for F1; p-val = 0.001 for F2) and juvenile oysters (days 58 and 120) (p-val = 0.002; p-val = 0.005) from both generations

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