Fig. 6: Microbial circadian rhythmicity of M. lignano, and composition characteristics of the microbiota of worms and PCM in the observation time points.

In A, the relative bacterial load is shown during the 24-h observation period (expressed as Zeitgeber time). In B, beta-diversity measurement of these bacterial samples is based on Shannon index analysis. C, D The relative abundances of the Peregrinibacteria and Pelomonas. E, F Bray-Curtis non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) and a network of worms and PCM in eight record time points. The Ellipsoids represent a confidence interval surrounding each group, stress value = 0.065. The color code indicates the time points in both E and F. The cycling statistical JTK outputs permutation-based p-values (ADJ.P) were defined. N = 5.