Fig. 4.

Influence of ecological processes in governing bacterial community assemblage in fugu gut. The correlations between phylogenetic beta diversity βNTI and differences in feed source signals in fugu gut microbiota for (A) all ESVs, (B) abundant ESVs sub‐community and (C) rare ESVs sub‐community. Red lines denote fitting of linear regressions and corresponding Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients were indicated in the upright corner within each subpanel. Grey horizontal dashed lines denote the cut‐off of βNTI significance between −2 and + 2.

D. Depicts the relative importance of different ecological processes in governing community turnover for ‘all’, ‘abundant’ and ‘rare’ sub‐communities respectively.