Fig. 1.
Prevalent bacterial families in foals’ conjunctival microbiota identified in individual animals. 1–6 – individual foals; I – first sampling time point (within 12 h of birth); II – second sampling time point (after the first month of life); III – third sampling time point (after the second month of life)
Fig. 2.
Prevalent bacterial genera in foals’ conjunctival microbiota identified in individual animals. 1–6 – individual foals; I – first sampling time point (within 12 h of birth); II – second sampling time point (after the first month of life); III – third sampling time point (after the second month of life)
Fig. 3.
Box plots presenting Shannon and Simpson indices at the order level. The red line represents the median for all six foals
Fig. 4.
Box plots presenting Shannon and Simpson indices at the family level. The red line represents the median for all six foals
Fig. 5.
Box plots presenting Shannon and Simpson indices at the genus level. The red line represents the median for all six foals
Table 1.
P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the order taxonomic level
Table 2.
P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the family taxonomic level
Table. 3.
P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the genus taxonomic level
Fig. 6.
Principal component analysis of the Bray–Curtis distance table on the species level