FIGURE 2.

Comparisons of Shannon’s diversity index. (A) Among the host species (Bengalese Finches and zebra finches). (B) In males of both species across five different sampling times: at incubation, 5 days (D5), 10 days (D10), 35 days (D35), and 100 days (D100) after hatching of the youngest chick, respectively. The significance was determined based on the linear mixed model, at p-values ≤ 0.05 (*), p ≤ 0.01 (**), and p ≤ 0.001 (***). In the box plots, the line within indicates the median and the lower and upper boundary of the boxes indicates the 25th and 75th percentile, respectively. Whiskers above and below the boxes correspond to the range of 1.5 times the inter-quartile range (IQR) above and below the 25th and 75th percentile, respectively.