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Fungal communities
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Figure 3. Gut bacterial community variation due to lifestyle
changes. (a) Variation in gut microbiome richness during lifestyle
shifts. Circles represent samples, with Wild-training I panda
communities shown in blue, wild-training II in red, reintroduced in
green, and wild in purple. (b) Variation in gut microbiome diversity
during lifestyle shifts. Circles represent samples, as indicated in
panel a. (c) Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) of bacterial
community structures from the wild-training I, wild-training II,
reintroduced, and wild lifestyle groups. PC1 and PC2 are shown on the x
and y axes along with the percent variation explained by each. Circles
represent samples and are colored as indicated in panel a. (d)
Differences in overall bacterial phylum-level compositions of the
communities from the wild-training I, wild-training II, and reintroduced
pandas. (e) Significantly different bacterial taxa among the
wild-training I, wild-training II, and reintroduced groups, as
identified by linear discriminant analysis coupled with effect size
(LEfSe) using the default parameters. Blue symbols show wild-training I
samples, red: wild-training II, and green: reintroduced. Blue text shows
phyla and genera. (f) Differences in overall bacterial genus-level
composition of the communities from the wild-training I, wild-training
II, and reintroduced experimental groups. *: 0.01 < p< 0.05, **: p <0.01.