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. 2019 Apr 11;21(7):2333–2346. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14614

Figure 7.

Figure 7

SourceTracker source environment proportion estimates for the gut bacterial communities in suckled (n = 6) and bottle‐fed (n = 6) lambs. (A) Pie charts of the mean proportions for 250 draws from Gibbs sampling; (B) bar charts of proportion estimates for the same samples; (C) visualization of the 250 Gibbs draws, with each column showing the mixture from one draw, and the columns ordered to keep similar mixtures together. VA: maternal vagina; OA: maternal oral cavity; FEA: maternal stool; NA: maternal teat skin; ATA: maternal abdominal region skin; UA: maternal udder skin; MA: milk from birth mother; FA: sheep pen floor of suckled group; WA: pen wall of suckled group; SA: ambient air of suckled group; MB: milk for bottle feeding; FB: sheep pen floor of bottle‐fed group; WB: pen wall of bottle‐fed group; SB: ambient air of bottle‐fed group. Except for the MB, SA, and SB, the sample size of each maternal and environmental niche was 6. The sample size of MB was 3. The ambient air microbes of each group were sampled using the same gelatin membrane filter for three consecutive days, so both SA and SB had a sample size of 1. [Color figure can be viewed at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com]