Fig. 3: Combined gut bacteriome and mycobiome community composition differ across different primate species.
From: The primate gut mycobiome-bacteriome interface is impacted by environmental and subsistence factors
a Principal coordinate analysis based on Bray-Curtis distances showing significant differences in combined bacteriome and mycobiome community composition across different primate groups. Each symbol represents the combined bacteriome and mycobiome composition at the ASV level in fecal samples of an individual primate species. A Bray-Curtis distance dendrogram (hierarchical clustering, method = average) based on mean abundances. b Distances to centroid show higher inter-individual variations in mycobiome community composition as compared to bacteriome across different primate groups. Fold changes along with the statistical significance based on wilcoxon rank-sum tests (p < 0.05, highlighted by *) are provided at the top of each boxplot (c) Correspondence between bacteriome and mycobiome composition as shown by Procrustes analysis on Bray-Curtis distances (Protest corr = 0.78, p = 0.001 and mantel test, r = 0.63, p = 0.001). D Procrustes distances between bacteriome and mycobiome composition in each primate group show greater correspondence in traditional human populations. The identifiers used for primate groups are US-H: US-Human, CCO: Captive Chimpanzee-Ostrava, CWLG: Captive Western Lowland Gorilla, MG: Mountain Gorilla, Ban-H: Bantu-Human, BaA-H: BaAka-Human, and WLG: Western Lowland Gorilla. In boxplots, center values indicate the median; bounds of box represents lower/upper quartiles; whiskers show inner fences.
