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Remodelling of the healthy foal’s conjunctival microbiome in the first two months of life

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31 gen 2025
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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)
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)
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
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
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
Box plots presenting Shannon and Simpson indices at the genus level. The red line represents the median for all six foals

Fig. 6.

Principal component analysis of the Bray–Curtis distance table on the species level
Principal component analysis of the Bray–Curtis distance table on the species level

P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the family taxonomic level

I vs. II I vs. III II vs. III
Shannon index 0.0074* 0.3632 0.0998
Simpson index 0.0024* 0.3866 0.0459*

P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the order taxonomic level

I vs. II I vs. III II vs. III
Shannon index 0.0048* 0.3616 0.0863
Simpson index 0.0058* 0.4607 0.0369*

P-values of the t-tests applied to compare Shannon and Simpson indices at different time points at the genus taxonomic level

I vs. II I vs. III II vs. III
Shannon index 0.0073* 0.3968 0.0907
Simpson index 0.0016* 0.3557 0.0703
Lingua:
Inglese
Frequenza di pubblicazione:
4 volte all'anno
Argomenti della rivista:
Scienze biologiche, Biologia molecolare, Microbiologia e virologia, Scienze della vita, altro, Medicina, Medicina veterinaria