Fig. 3: Measures of microbial diversity in influent sewage for two neighboring communities.

A Beta diversity of ARGs via NMDS (stress = 0.1432995) categorized by wastewater treatment plant (WWTP; PERMANOVA: R2 = 0.28, p value = 0.001). B ARG Shannon diversity (university WWTP versus community WWTP, Wilcox, p < 0.0001). C NMDS of Family-level bacterial taxonomy (stress = 0.1136702) categorized by WWTP (PERMANOVA: R2 = 0.31, p value = 0.001). D Family-level Shannon diversity (university WWTP vs. community WWTP, Wilcox, p < 0.0001).