Fig 1.
Distribution of the two differentiated L. yerbabuenae populations in Mexico.
The Pacific population is found in the states of Baja California, Sonora and Jalisco. The Central population (from which our samples were collected) is found in Morelos, Guerrero and Oaxaca.
Table 1.
Sampling data from different reproductive stages of L. yerbabuenae.
Fig 2.
Alpha diversity index by reproductive stage.
Fig 3.
PCoA with the weighted unifrac distances by reproductive stage.
Fig 4.
Distribution of bacterial phyla, class and order composition of fecal microbiota of L. yerbabuenae in different reproductive stages.
Fig 5.
Distribution of bacterial Class composition of fecal microbiota of L. yerbabuenae in different reproductive stages.
Fig 6.
Distribution of bacterial Genus composition of fecal microbiota of L. yerbabuenae in different reproductive stages.
Fig 7.
Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSec) showing similarities in the microbial communities of L. yerbabuenae at the family level.
Table 2.
PERMANOVA analysis with 1000 permutations and the weighted unifrac distance.
In the pairwise mode, the p-value was adjusted using the false discovery rate (FDR) method. The significant comparisons at a p.value 0.05 are marked with asterisk. The permutest analysis was not significant (p.value = 0.149), thus the PERMANOVA result is reliable because the dispersion of the groups is homogeneous.
Fig 8.
Venn diagram of different reproductive stages of L. yerbabuenae.