Figure 5
Changes in abundances of individual taxa related to nematode burden in each microbiome. (a) Volcano plots displaying fold-changes in relative abundance from low to high nematode burden for core (blue) and satellite (red) taxa. Positive and negative values represent increases and decreases in relative taxa abundance within the high-burden group when compared with the low-burden group. The dashed line depicts P=0.05, with taxa above that line having significant fold-changes in abundance, whereas those falling below the line are not significant. Core and satellite taxa that were only detected in low- or high-burden groups are excluded from this analysis as there fold change would be infinity. Instead, (b) they are presented in rank-abundance plots for each microbiome. Number of individual hosts by low and high-burden groups for each microbiome are: proventriculus, low n=19, high n=19; cloaca, low n=20, high n=19; and faeces, low n=6, high n=4.
