Fig. 3. Compositional reproducibility of species and functional profiles.
A Aggregated Shannon diversity based on species profiles across all participants for each storage method. B Aggregated Shannon diversity based on functional profiles across all participants for each storage method. C Aggregated Bray–Curtis dissimilarity of species profiles from all participants for each stabilisation method. D Aggregated Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of functional profiles from all participants for each stabilisation method. Significance was assessed by linear mixed effect regression (LMER). A, B Different colours represent different participants. * = FDR P value < 0.05 compared to frozen samples. C, D Boxes that do not share the same letter are significantly different at FDR P value < 0.05.