Fig. 3: Diversity and bacterial load of mature worms (MWs) and starved mature worms (SMWs). | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Diversity and bacterial load of mature worms (MWs) and starved mature worms (SMWs).

From: The microbiome of the marine flatworm Macrostomum lignano provides fitness advantages and exhibits circadian rhythmicity

Fig. 3

In A, B, the relative bacterial abundances and bacterial load of MWs and SMWs are shown. C, D Shannon index, and Bray-Curtis distances analysis show the diversity of the microbial community of bacterial samples from MWs and SMWs. E The non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plot based on the Bray-Curtis distances analyses. Each group employed 5 mature animals with five biological replicates. Asterisks denote significant differences between samples (t-test), ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001, and n.s. no significant difference.

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