Figure 5

Beta diversity measure. (A,B) PCoA, based on Bray Curtis dissimilarities, correlated with CSTs and Age range. (A) Samples belonging to different CSTs are indicated with different colour dots. (B) CSTs are indicated with different forms (dots, triangles, cross-marks and squares). Age range are indicated with different blue colour-scales. p = 0.001 for CST, p = 0.002 for Age and p = 0.009 for Age:CST, respectively by PERMANOVA using the adonis() function with 999 permutations.