Fig. 1.

Rarefaction curve and PCoA for each breed and location sampled, created by combining data from all three primer pairs. a Rarefaction and b PCoA for each individual chicken breed or line was generated using QIIME where sequences were clustered at 97% similarity and rarified at > 10,000 sequences per sample. c PCoA based on location was generated using the Bray-Curtis distance method using PAST. A-, C-, R- and K- represent the Aseel, Cobb400, Ross 308 and Kadaknath chicken breeds or lines respectively. -A sampled at location 1 in Anand, -T sampled at location 2 in Tamil Nadu