Figure 2.

Plots showing the comparisons of microbiota associated with the early developmental stages (EE, EBH, and HL) of Atlantic salmon. Stage‐specific color coding was used for Figures a, b, and d. (a) Alpha diversity indices (Shannon index and PD whole tree) of the bacterial communities and (b) Weighted UniFrac distance‐based PCoA. (c) The mean relative abundance of the 10 most abundant OTUs, plotted at the genus level. The OTUs are colored according to their taxonomic classification, and the OTUs without any assignment are shown in gray. (d) Cladogram showing the significantly abundant taxonomic groups in each of the stages, identified based on the LEfSe analysis (p < 0.05 and effect size >3.5).