Figure 1.
Influence of diet and habitat on the gut bacterial community of mammals.
nMDS ordination plot dislaying similarity of the gut bacterial community in the host mammal as grouped by diet and habitat. See Figure S4 for detailed display of this figure.
Table 1.
Difference of the gut bacterial community of host mammals based on groupings of diet, habitat, phylogeny, and gut morphology using ANOSIM.
Figure 2.
Differences in abundance of dominant phyla in the gut bacterial community of mammals based on groupings of habitat and diet.
Average relative abundance of each major phyla in the gut bacterial community of host mammals grouped by habitat and diet. Error bars represent standard errors (SE). The lack of replication in the marine herbivore grouping does not allow for estimation of SE or significance testing. Student’s paired t-test were conducted between groups as displayed in Table 2.
Table 2.
Differences in presence of dominant phyla in the gut bacterial community of mammals based on groupings of habitat and diet using Student’s paired t-test.
Figure 3.
Influence of phylogenetic family on the gut bacterial community of mammals from the order Carnivora.
nMDS plot displays gut bacterial community of all host mammals in the order Carnivora grouped by family. Host species labels are as follows: (RP) red panda; (BB) black bear; (PB) polar bear; (SB) spectacled bear; (GP) giant panda; (BEAR) bear from Norway; (CE) cheetah; (BDOG) bushdog; (DOG) domestic dog; (LI) lion; (HY) spotted hyena; (GREY) grey seal; (HOOD) hooded seal; (HARB) harbour seal; (ES) southern elephant seal; (WLS) leopard seal.
Figure 4.
Richness of the gut bacterial community of mammals grouped by habitat and diet.
Richness of the gut bacterial community was measured using Chao 1 mean. Error bars represent standard error (SE). Student’s paired t-test were conducted between groups with significance level: p = ≤0.001 (***), p = 0.01 (**), p = 0.025 (*). The lack of replication in the marine herbivore grouping does not allow for estimation of SE or significance testing.