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Fig. 5 | Environmental Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Microbial tapestry of the Shulgan-Tash cave (Southern Ural, Russia): influences of environmental factors on the taxonomic composition of the cave biofilms

Fig. 5

The PCA biplot of the bacterial (a, b) and archaeal (c, d) communities of the Shulgan-Tash cave was generated based on Bray-Curtis distance method. The points on the plot correspond to the individual samples. The plots b and c also included ellipses outlining the samples associated with a specific floor of the cave. (e) –The LEfSe analysis of the communities on the 1st and 2nd floors identified taxa with a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score of 2.0 as the cut-off value. Abundant taxa on the 2nd floor were indicated with a negative LDA score (green), while abundant taxa on the 1st floor were indicated with a positive score (purple). The closest taxonomic-level identification of each taxon is indicated in parentheses, specifying whether it belongs to the phylum (P), class (C), order (O), family (F), or genus (G)

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Environmental Microbiome

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