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Fig. 4 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 4

From: Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?

Fig. 4

Ranked abundance of bacterial genera. a Dorsal plumage tract. b Ventral plumage tract. Histograms are limited to the 50 most abundant bacterial genera for each plumage tract within species. The extremophiles, Deinococcus and Hymenobacter, are denoted by orange and blue bars, respectively. Genera known from plumage of wild birds that exhibit keratinolytic activity in vitro are denoted in white. Initials signify Bacillus (B), Enterococcus (E), Staphylococcus (Sta), Streptomyces (Str), and Pseudomonas (P). No archaeal genera occurred among the top 50. The y-axis represents proportional abundance (log2 CSS normalized counts for each genera divided by the summed log2 CSS counts for all genera observed across individuals within a species). Illustrations of vulture species are proportionally sized and were modified from original drawings by Megan K. Viera

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