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From: The importance of environmental microbes for Drosophila melanogaster during seasonal macronutrient variability

Figure 2

Microbial community structure of the flies developed on the different diets (n = 4–5). (a) Two-dimensional nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) axes based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity matrices of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). Each point represents the microbial community in a sample. Flies were grouped in 5 to represent one sample. (b) Shannon diversity index (left y-axis) of the microbial community of the fly samples across the food collection days. Points show mean (± 95% CI). Smaller points represent replicates. Colour and symbol code same as (a). The red dotted line represents the protein to carbohydrate (P:C) ratio of the diet (right y-axis). (c) The 20 relatively most abundant ASVs across fly samples with relative abundance indicated by the colour coding. Figures (a,b) created using R package ggplot2 v3.3.3 (https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/). Figure (b) created using R package phyloseq v1.34.0 (https://github.com/joey711/phyloseq).

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