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Fig. 3 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: Microbiota members from body sites of dairy cows are largely shared within individual hosts throughout lactation but sharing is limited in the herd

Fig. 3

The sites differ in terms of richness and repertoire. A Alpha-diversity of the cow nasal (N), oral (O), vaginal (V) and milk (M) microbiota 1 week before calving (-1W) and 1, 3 and 7 months (1 M, 3 M, 7 M) post-partum. The distribution of two diversity indices, namely the observed richness and the Shannon index, indicates both a site and a time effect on the alpha-diversity. B Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) of bovine microbiota associated to the four anatomic sites and at four different time points during lactation. MDS was performed based on the measurement of the Bray–Curtis or UniFrac distances. Samples are indicated by points and colored with regard to the anatomic sites (O, N, V, M) and the four time points (-1W, 1 M, 3 M, 7 M) (see legend panel A). PERMANOVA performed with both distances revealed a significant site effect on beta-diversity, although the p-values can be anti-conservatives due to differences in beta-dispersion across time (betadisper P val < 0.01, see Additional file 11). Color codes (displayed right side in panel A) are similar in panel A and B

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Animal Microbiome

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