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Fig. 3 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes: captivity changes the gut microbiota composition and diversity in a social subterranean rodent

Fig. 3

Boxplots of relative abundances for each sample and the seven phyla with 100% prevalence within wild and captive faecal samples from the Damaraland mole-rat. A The two dominating phyla, Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. B Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Spirochaetes and Synergistetes and other phyla, representing the sum of relative abundance of phyla not represented in all samples. Yellow boxes represent samples from captive individuals and blue-green boxes samples from wild individuals. Note the different y-axis scaling in the two panels

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671