Fig. 5. Seasonal clustering patterns in diet–microbiota lineages of yak in transhumance and open-continuous grazing regimes.

The diet and microbiota compositions are determined with Bray–Curtis distance in (a) transhumance and (b) open-continuous grazing regimes, which are colored by season. Procrustes rotates the results of separate principal coordinates of diet composition (circle symbols) and gut microbiota composition (triangle symbols). Significant dissimilarities occurred between diet and microbiota ordinations by p-value.