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. 2019 Sep 4;14(1):26–38. doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0504-y

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Fig. 5 — Different adaptive strategies within the microbiota and their relationship to worm colonization. We applied the universal adaptive strategy theory proposed for soil bacteria [58] to categorize the bacterial isolates. a Based on genomic and metabolic features, each isolate obtained a score for the competitive (C), stress-tolerating (S), and ruderal (R) strategy, which is represented in the 3D-coordinate system. b Bacterial colonization behavior in comparison to adaptive strategies. Isolates that were categorized as ruderal produced the lowest bacterial load, whereas stress-tolerator and competitors had the highest values. The difference in bacterial load between ruderal and other strategies was significant (Wilcoxon rank-sum test, P = 0.01)