Fig. 5From: Cloacal swabs and alcohol bird specimens are good proxies for compositional analyses of gut microbial communities of Great tits (Parus major)a Relative abundance of bacterial phyla in different gut sections preserved under different methods. b Relative abundance of the ten most common bacterial genera (accounting for a total of 88.5% of sequences in the data set) across compartments and preserved under different conditions. Each column represents different gut sections from an individual. U = unclassified genera within the given taxonBack to article page