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Fig. 5 | Environmental Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Nutrient-limited subarctic caves harbour more diverse and complex bacterial communities than their surface soil

Fig. 5

The same bacterial taxa contribute significantly to community level differences between surfaces and cave zones, and only a small proportion of surface bacterial genera are shared with cave zones. A-C Bacterial taxa that were significantly differentially abundant (LDA value > 3.5) between the surface communities and the three cave zones [twilight (A), middle (B), deep (C)]  based on LEfSe analyses. Taxa that were significantly (relatively) more abundant in the surface communities compared to communities in all three cave zones are highlighted in bold. The closest taxonomic-level identification of the taxa are indicated in parenthesis (P—Phylum, C—Class, O—Order, F—Family, G—Genus). D. The bar chart represents the proportion of bacterial genera in cave zones that were predicted to originate from surface communities based on the source tracking analysis

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