Figure 6
From: Post-hypoxia Invasion of the fetal brain by multidrug resistant Staphylococcus
Alpha (Panel A) and Beta (Panel B) diversity of bacteria identified in the placenta and brain samples after amplification and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes from extracted DNA. Alpha diversity describes the bacterial diversity within each sample and is expressed as the number of operational taxonomic units defined by 95% identity of the 16S rRNA gene (observed - left panel) or as the Shannon diversity index (Shannon - right panel). Beta diversity compares the relationship of the community diversity between samples and is depicted as a principal component analysis plot (PCoA) using the weighted UniFrac distance measure. Bacterial diversity in cerebral cortex and placenta of fetal sheep exposed to normoxia or hypoxia.
