Fig 1.
Development of dorsal patch in L. yerbabuenae.
The dorsal areas of different male bats captured during the same sampling period show patches at different stages of development from a less developed patch (left) to a mature, well-developed patch (right).
Fig 2.
Location of San Juan Noxchitlan cave, Oaxaca, Mexico (18° 03’ 00.0” W and 97° 40’ 00.0” N), at an approximate altitude of 1978 m.a.s.l.
Table 1.
Alpha diversity of phylotypes in the microbiota from each of the 11 dorsal patch samples.
Fig 3.
Graphical representation of similarity among the samples from each of the 11 individuals base on weighted unifrac distance.
Fig 4.
Composition of the dorsal patch at the phylum level.
Fig 5.
Composition of the dorsal patch at the class level.
Fig 6.
Composition of the dorsal patch at the genus level.
Fig 7.
OTUs that were shared among all the samples.
Dot sizes represent their relative abundance within the samples. These 26 OTUs combined contribute between 30 and 75% of the total abundance.
Fig 8.
Eight (31%) of the genera and one family were unassigned out of the 26 shared OTUs found in the dorsal patch of L. yerbabuenae.
Fig 9.
Taxonomic affiliation of each OTU to its three best references (RefSeq-NCBI Database).
The code names of related species sequence, shows “NCBI accession id”_”species name”.