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Fig. 7 | BMC Genomics

Fig. 7

From: Immune challenge reduces gut microbial diversity and triggers fertility-dependent gene expression changes in a social insect

Fig. 7

Diversity indexes grouped by treatment. The horizontal bars in the boxplots represent the medians and the boxes indicate the first and third quartile. Immune-challenged and non-immune-challenged ants harboured gut communities that differ significantly in a) Shannon’s diversity and b) Simpson diversity index as indicated by the asterisks on the plot. The gut communities of immune-challenged ants had a lower diversity than those of non-immune-challenged ants. c) The number of 16S rRNA copies per ng of total DNA grouped by immunity treatment Samples originating from immune-challenged ants tended to have more copies of the 16S rRNA gene. The samples outside the third quartile are represented by dots and their names, corresponding to those used in Fig. 6, are written on the plot. d) Constrained ordination biplot of the T. rugatulus gut communities showing the association between the expression of the antimicrobial effector genes hymenoptaecin and defensin (TPM) with the bacterial community variance. The length of the arrows reflects the strength of the correlation of each gene with the gut communities

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