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Fig. 5 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Composition and co-occurrence patterns of the microbiota of different niches of the bovine mammary gland: potential associations with mastitis susceptibility, udder inflammation, and teat-end hyperkeratosis

Fig. 5

Clustering of milk samples based on the abundance of hub OTUs. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) was used for visualization of Bray-Curtis dissimilarities of the milk microbial communities. The OTU table was normalized using cumulative sum scaling (CSS) transformation. PERMANOVA was used to test for distinction of clustering patterns based on the counts of selected hub OTUs (a-f). Samples were categorized into two groups that either contained high (≥ 10 OTUs/4000 sequencing reads) or low (< 10 OTUs/4000 sequencing reads) number of the selected hub OTUs. The effect of cow was included as random factor in all comparison. For all tests, p-values < 0.05 were considered significant

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671