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Fig. 4 | Animal Microbiome

Fig. 4

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. 4

Temporal variation of bovine oral, nasal, vaginal and milk microbiota during lactation is site dependent. For each site, multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) was performed based on the measurement of the UniFrac distance. Samples are indicated by points and colored with regard to the four time points (-1W, 1 M, 3 M, 7 M). Permanova performed with the UniFrac distances revealed a time effect on the microbial composition associated to each site with a higher contribution of time to oral and nasal microbiota beta-diversity compared to milk and vaginal. (see P value and R2 indicated on the figure; A R2 of 0.244 (first panel) indicates a contribution of time to oral microbiota beta-diversity of 24.4%, although that number may be inflated by differences in beta dispersion). Similar results were obtained with Jaccard, Unifrac and wUniFrac distances

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671