Figure 2
Box-plot comparisons of bacterial diversity, using Fisher’s alpha index of diversity, of the whole, core and satellite microbiota (a) between microbiomes, and by host sex within the (b) cloacal and (c) faecal microbiomes. The top and bottom boundaries of each box indicate the 75th and 25th quartile values, respectively, and lines within each box represent the 50th quartile (median) values. Ends of whiskers mark the lowest and highest diversity values in each instance. Asterisks denote significant differences in comparisons of diversity at the P<0.05 level determined by two-sample t-tests (*P<0.05 and **P<0.005).
