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Fig. 3 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: The skin microbiome of Xenopus laevis and the effects of husbandry conditions

Fig. 3

Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) of all samples in the data set. Axis 1 and Axis 2 represent the coordinates of the greatest sources of orthogonal variation within the data and represent 27.9 and 9.4% of variation in the entire data set respectively. Whilst results from biological replicates and distinct tanks are generally consistent, Axis 1 represents the difference in diversity between the adult frogs as compared to both tadpoles and environmental water samples. Axis 2 shows close clustering between adults housed in standard and clean conditions, and tadpoles and their environmental water samples for clean conditions only. However, a significant change in diversity is seen for tadpoles from standard conditions, despite water samples from standard tanks showing similar profiles to those from clean tanks

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