Fig. 4: Variation in sperm concentration and bacterial taxa in the prepuce microbiomes of male black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). | Communications Biology

Fig. 4: Variation in sperm concentration and bacterial taxa in the prepuce microbiomes of male black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes).

From: Markers of fertility in reproductive microbiomes of male and female endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes)

Fig. 4

Ferrets were housed at two ex-situ facilities (FCC and NZCBI) and the wild (Conata) (n = 21). Sperm concentration varies across individual ferrets (a) and correlations with differentially abundant bacterial genera (as calculated by ANCOMBC) visualized with linear trendlines (b–e).

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