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Fig. 1 | Animal Microbiome

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From: Microbiomes of a specialist caterpillar are consistent across different habitats but also resemble the local soil microbial communities

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Alpha diversity of caterpillar and soil samples collected in the nine localities within three habitats (coastal dunes, natural grasslands and riverine grasslands). Species richness, Shannon diversity and Simpson diversity in caterpillar and soil microbiomes were calculated for the rarefied datasets. Wilcoxon tests with pairwise adjusted (Holm) p-values showed that diversity indices were not significantly different between localities or habitats (a). Overall abundances of bacterial top 20 phyla (b), classes (c) and top 20 orders (d) within the most abundant phylum (Proteobacteria) in caterpillar (right hand side) and soil (left hand side) samples. In (b to d) to improve visualization of lower abundant taxa, total relative abundance for each taxon was square-rooted transformed. The relative abundances of bacteria from each habitat is represented as proportional to the whole bar

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671