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Fig. 4 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 4

From: Microbial environment shapes immune function and cloacal microbiota dynamics in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata

Fig. 4

Procrustes analysis of immune function and cloacal microbiota states. a, b Procrustean superimposition of two multivariate data sets for birds exposed to (a) high diversity and (b) low diversity soils: multivariate immune index based on four immune indices (agglutination titer, IgY concentration, lysis titer, haptoglobin concentration) (open symbol) and taxon occurrence in cloacal microbiota based on unweighted UniFrac (closed symbol). Procrustes analysis scaled and rotated both ordinations to the best Procrustean fit (M2) and protest statistics are shown in each plot. c, d PCoA scores of immune function of birds exposed to (c) high diversity and (d) low diversity soils predicted by PCoA scores for phylogenetic taxon occurrence of cloacal microbiota. The line depicts the predicted relationship and the shaded area depicts the 95% CI of the predictions. c, d Linear mixed-model inferences are controlled using subject identity and replicate room as random effects

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