Fig. 1: Changes in community composition and dispersion through time.
From: The amphibian microbiome exhibits poor resilience following pathogen-induced disturbance
Top panel shows NMDS ordination of microbial communities: A Pre-infection, no difference between treatments. B Post-infection: composition (position of ellipses) but not dispersion (sizes of ellipses) differed between treatments. C Recovery period: Clearing Bd infection did not lead to microbial community recovery. Bd-clearance homogenized the microbiota of Bd-infected (but not uninfected) frogs. Ellipses are 95% normal data ellipses. D Microbial community dispersion: mean Unifrac distance (within each treatment-by-time group) of individual microbial communities to the group centroid. Asterisk indicates a group that differs significantly from all other groups (P values: Table 5). Error bars are standard error. NMDS was performed on all data together, then separated by experiment phase (A, B, C) for clarity. P values correspond to PERMANOVA (comp) and PERMDISP (disp) tests. Ordination stress: 0.06.
