Fig. 4: The dynamics of the exometabolite pool during community assembly.
From: Cooperative microbial interactions drive spatial segregation in porous environments
a Procrustes rotation of the total microbiota composition nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plot with the metabolome NMDS plot (Procrustes correlation = 0.72, p = 0.001). b Correlation between the ASVs (relative abundance >0.1% across total microbial communities in microfluidic chips) and amino acids. Only those with Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (|r| ≥ 0.5, ***p ≤ 0.001, **p ≤ 0.01, *p ≤ 0.05) are shown. ACC, 1-Aminocyclopropane 1-carboxylic acid; Ect, Ectoine; 2-Akbt, 2-amino-3-oxobutanoic acid. c The accumulation of total amino acids in the supernatant (n = 3 chips). d The dynamics of DAA during biofilm development exhibit a V pattern (n = 3 chips). The shaded areas represent the standard deviation of three biological replicates. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
