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Microbial diversity and community composition in cloaca and preen gland samples from chipping sparrows. (A) Relative abundance of orders obtained from 16S rRNA gene sequencing of preen oil and the cloaca. Orders with less than 5% abundance were grouped together as were orders that were unidentified. (B) Alpha diversity of cloaca and preen oil communities. (C) Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plot of Bray–Curtis dissimilarity.
