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Fig. 1 | Animal Microbiome

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From: Unveiling the early life core microbiome of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus and the unexpected abundance of the growth-promoting Sulfitobacter

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Alpha and beta diversity among sea cucumber samples. a Box-plot based on evenness index (Kruskal-Wallis, p < 0.05). b Unweighted UniFrac distance plot between sea cucumber larvae at different developmental stage (PERMANOVA, p < 0.05, q < 0.05). FE: Fertilized Egg; GL: Gastrula; EA: Early Auricularia; LA: Late Auricularia; PT: Pentactula; JN: Juvenile. c PCoA plot based on Bray–Curtis distance and d PCoA plot based on Unweighted UniFrac distance. Different colors represent different years; closed circles represent larvae samples before gut development, triangles represent larvae samples post gut development. e NMDS (non-metric multidimensional scaling) ordination based on Bray–Curtis distance showing the differences of microbiome both pre and post gut development. preGD: pre gut development; postGD: post gut development. f NMDS ordination based on Bray–Curtis distance showing the differences of microbiome between years. g Unweighted UniFrac distance plot between different years ((PERMANOVA, p = 0.001, q < 0.05) and h Unweighted Unifrac distance plot between sea cucumber larvae before and post gut development (PERMANOVA, p = 0.001, q < 0.05)

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671