Fig. 5: Membership and bacterial diversity of female vaginal microbiomes in black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) that produced viable offspring (n = 10) or non-viable offspring within 6 months before or after sampling (n = 3). | Communications Biology

Fig. 5: Membership and bacterial diversity of female vaginal microbiomes in black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) that produced viable offspring (n = 10) or non-viable offspring within 6 months before or after sampling (n = 3).

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

Fig. 5

Genus-level membership (a) across female ferrets that produced viable offspring and for each of the three ferrets that produced non-viable kits. Genera are identified by color and labeled with the phylum and deepest taxonomic assignment. Taxa representing <1% of the microbiomes were combined into the category “Other”. “Unidentified” represents taxa that were identified as bacteria but not assigned to a phylum. Variation in differentially abundant amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) (b, c) and Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (d) between female ferrets that produced viable offspring and that produced non-viable kits. Points are labeled with the IDs of the two ferrets that produced entire litters of non-viable kits.

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