posted on 2014-03-21, 03:30authored byMartin J. Sergeant, Chrystala Constantinidou, Tristan A. Cogan, Michael R. Bedford, Charles W. Penn, Mark J. Pallen
(A) Rarefaction curves of the OTUs clustered at 97% sequence identity for each chicken, based on the averages of the four replicates per bird. (B) Hierarchical clustering visualizing similarities among cecal samples. The number in each label indicates each individual chicken and the letter each individual ceca (either A or B). Technical replicates of each ceca were carried out. (C) Bar chart showing the proportion of reads assigned to the top 5 most abundant OTUs in each chicken.