Figure 2.

Stressor exposure was not associated with shifts in α diversity in the luminally-associated microbiota. (A) The Shannon Diversity index (SDI), (B) richness (using Chao1) and (C). Evenness (using equitability measurement) was measured for each sample using QIIME and averaged by group. None of the α diversity measurements were affected by stressor exposure. Data are mean ± SD. N = 5 for all groups, with the exception of HCC-Control, which had n = 4. Groups were compared using parametric T-tests on QIIME with a modified Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons.