Fig. 6: Diurnal oscillations do not decay with age. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Diurnal oscillations do not decay with age.

From: Diurnal oscillations in gut bacterial load and composition eclipse seasonal and lifetime dynamics in wild meerkats

Fig. 6: Diurnal oscillations do not decay with age.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a–c Diurnal oscillations of 16 focus genera in a) young meerkats (<1 year old; n = 385). b adult meerkats (1–5 years old; n = 627); and (c) particularly old meerkats (>5 years old; n = 97). Zero represents the taxa mean and sample distributions are indicated by the histograms. d–h Model estimates and 95% confidence intervals for (d) Clostridium (sensu stricto 1); (e) Bacteroides; (f) Paeniclostridium, (g) Cellulomonas, and (h) Raoultibacter, split by age category (blue = young; grey = adult; red = old). Source data are provided in the source data file.

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