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From: Spotting disease disrupts the microbiome of infected purple sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Fig. 2

The global surface microbiome diversity is not different between diseased and healthy sea urchins. Alpha diversity is analyzed by A Observed Species, B Chao1, and C ACE. The box plots show the mean and quartile values for each group, which are not significantly different (ANOVA, p > 0.05). D Beta diversity is analyzed at the level of ASV sequences using weighted UniFrac and visualized with NMDS. Ellipses around sample groups show 95% confidence intervals assuming a multivariate t-distribution (solid line) or a multivariate normal distribution (dashed line). The beta diversity of the groups is not significantly different (PERMANOVA, p > 0.05), indicating that microbial composition is similar for the global surface microbiomes on diseased and healthy sea urchins housed in the same aquarium

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